Nigeria Pronounced as the Second Largest Producers of Rice

If the words of the media aided to President Buhari are to be considered valid and reliable, Nigeria has swiftly attained an international feat in the most consumed cereal in the country, rice production. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, says Nigeria has achieved the status of second largest producer of rice in the world..

Malam Garba said this in Abuja at the weekend at a special interactive session with the youths organized by Citizens Support for Good Governance in Nigeria (SGGN). The presidential media aide, who spoke on the efforts being made by President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the economy, called for more patience. He said the government met a situation in which the economy had been ravaged, while the people had been used to lifestyles that could no longer be sustained.

He said,

No country will develop when you have to import virtually everything, including tooth pick and tissue paper. All the food we eat in this country was being imported. So, all of the money earned was just going to buy food.
But as I speak to you now, Nigeria just achieved the record of the second largest producer of rice in the world. The rice revolution just started a year ago. Some of you from Nasarawa know the kind of things going on there. A newspaper did an investigation in Kebbi and they found out that there were 48,000 new millionaires in Kebbi state alone last year for growing rice.
This over reliance on oil has killed this country and we cannot continue like this. So, the diversification of the economy means more money will be in the hands of ordinary Nigerians. And there will be widespread prosperity all over the country.