{"id":98698,"date":"2023-10-26T19:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims"},"modified":"2023-10-26T21:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:54:27","slug":"palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims","title":{"rendered":"Palliative: FG provides rice, maize to FCT Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government has provided 600 bags of rice and 200 bags of maize to the Muslim community in the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Rabiu Mohammed, the chairman of the FCT chapter of Jama\u2019atu Nasril Islam (JNI), confirmed this while handing over the food items to the leadership of the Committee of FCT Imams Initiative on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the palliative was meant to cushion the impact of the removal of petroleum subsidy by President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Government gave us 600 bags of (50kg) rice and 200 bags of maize, which we are handing over to the Chairman of the Committee of the FCT Imams Initiative, Sheikh Tajudeen Adigun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the Federal Government, the Jama\u2019atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has decided to hand over the items for distribution to the people here in the FCT,\u201d said Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the Committee of Imams is a component of JNI, which is an umbrella body of all Muslim organisations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him: \u201cThe committee of Imams has the structures to reach out to the target beneficiaries across the nooks and crannies of the territory. On behalf of the Jama\u2019atu Nasril Islam (JNI), I wish to hand over the items to the chairman of the FCT Committee of Imams so that they can start distribution of the palliatives to the nooks and crannies of the territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the foodstuff, Adigun said the committee had agreed to share 80 bags of rice and 30 bags of maize to each area council of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that other organisations, like the Jama\u2019atu Nasral Da\u2019awah and Muslim Community Centre, are also going to have their share of the food items.<\/p>\n<p>Affirming that some food items will go to the imams who are poor, he said: \u201cYou can see the trucks have started loading, and the imams of each of the area councils are here and their representatives who are going to follow these trucks to their Juma\u2019at mosques. By Zuhr, people are there waiting for them; from this point [it goes] to the point of distribution, and it will be distributed in the presence of emirs of those area councils.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cleric commended the Federal Government for the palliatives, noting that Islam encouraged Muslims to always appreciate no matter what little gesture was done to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank the Federal Government for the effort. Nigeria is a big country. We are 200 million and over. I think what will cushion the impact of hardship in Nigeria will be a long way away, but we always appreciate the little the government is doing. And we are encouraging them to do more,\u201d Adigun said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Government has provided 600 bags of rice and 200 bags of maize to the Muslim community in the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory. Alhaji Rabiu Mohammed, the chairman of the FCT chapter of Jama\u2019atu Nasril Islam (JNI), confirmed this while handing over the food items to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":98696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[1570,2140,622,11647,254,11646,2468],"class_list":["post-98698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-fct","tag-maize","tag-nigeria","tag-rabiu-mohammed","tag-rice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Palliative: FG provides rice, maize to FCT Muslims - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government has provided 600 bags of rice and 200 bags of maize to the Muslim community in the six area counc ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Palliative: FG provides rice, maize to FCT Muslims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Government has provided 600 bags of rice and 200 bags of maize to the Muslim community in the six area counc ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-26T18:24:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-10-26T20:54:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1698337218.006922.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"470\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Palliative: FG provides rice, maize to FCT Muslims\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-26T18:24:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-26T20:54:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims\"},\"wordCount\":473,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1698337218.006922.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"FCT\",\"maize\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rabiu Mohammed\",\"rice\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/palliative-fg-provides-rice-maize-to-fct-muslims\",\"name\":\"Palliative: FG provides rice, maize to FCT Muslims - 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