Food Security: Zulum meets Tinubu, wants irrigation projects revitalised

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The South Chad irrigation project, he said, has the “potential to produce food to cater for the needs of the entire northern Nigeria or I can say even the entire country.”

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Mr Zulum disclosed this to journalists after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja. “Now that we are having relative peace in Borno State, there’s need for the government to ensure reestablishment of South Chad irrigation project,” Mr Zulum told journalists. Thousands of Nigerians, many of them from Borno State, are seeking refuge in the neighbouring countries due to the insecurity in their communities.

 

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