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Faced with the shortage of dollars in the foreign exchange market, Nigeria may soon say goodbye to the importation of fertilizer with full completion of four production lines of Rahamaniyya Fertiliser Plant in Sokoto, Northwest Nigeria, as the company will be adding 1,028,570MT of NPK 20:10:10 fertiliser and NPK 15:15:15 respectively. Speaking in an interview with journalists, the Managing Director, Rahamaniyya Fertiliser Plant, Sokoto, Satish Singh Rathore, said that his company is the first plant in Nigeria with such capacity.
This is not the best of times for Nigerians, particularly the ordinary man on the street, the low class citizens as some people would prefer to call them.
Residents of Daura were on Thursday greeted by a scene of horror as a 90-year-old woman and her granddaughter were found dead with the latter's belly ripped open with some organs reportedly harvested. Daura in Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria, is the home town of former President Muhammadu Buhari. After spending eight years as President, Buhari retired to Daura in 2023. Neighbours discovered the bodies of 90-year-old Hajiya Amina and her 23-year-old granddaughter, Biklisu on Saturday morning, according to eyewitnesses.