{"id":18145,"date":"2024-02-20T16:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/hardship-customs-to-distribute-seized-food-items-to-nigerians\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:02:53","slug":"hardship-customs-to-distribute-seized-food-items-to-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/hardship-customs-to-distribute-seized-food-items-to-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardship: Customs to distribute seized food items to Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In the wake of the current high level of hardship in the country, the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has disclosed plans to distribute seized food items to Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>The Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, said the food items will be distributed after they have been certified fit for consumption.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by Customs National Public Relations officer, Abdullahi Maiwada on Tuesday, Adeniyi reaffirmed his commitment towards advancing President Bola Tinubu\u2019s food security agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, to alleviate the hardships faced by Nigerians and improve access to essential food items, the Nigeria Customs Service will facilitate the direct disposal of food items forfeited to the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese items will be certified fit for consumption by relevant agencies and made available to ordinary Nigerians nationwide through equitable distribution in our Areas of Operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, however, did not disclose when the planned distribution will commence.<\/p>\n<p>Hardship: Customs to distribute seized food items to Nigerians<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the current high level of hardship in the country, the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has disclosed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642,1202,15,761],"tags":[644,903,764,180,762],"class_list":["post-18145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customs","category-hardship","category-news","category-top-headlines","tag-customs","tag-hardship","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}