TINUBU ADMINISTRATION MOBILIZES HALF A BILLION DOLLARS FOR NIGERIA'S FOOD SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION - VP SHETTIMA Headlines UN Food Systems Summit in Roma Nigeria has mobilized over half a billion dollars for innovative, profitable, equitable and sustainable food systems transformation initiative, according to the Vice President, Sen. @KashimSM. The Vice President made the disclosure while chairing a high-level meeting on the first day of the UN @FoodSystems Summit declared open in Rome, Italy by the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guteress. Vice President @KashimSM said the funds were mobilised "through domestic resources, multilateral development banks, international financial institutions, climate funds leading agro-businesses," and would be used for "Innovation finance for food system transformation; development of Nigeria's agro value chain and Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones programmes."

Happening Now: HEVP @KashimSM in a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Italy, @GiorgiaMeloni. #UNFSS2023 #GlobalGoals

Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "China is a Sleeping Giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." President Bola Tinubu is poised to redefine the meaning and concept of modern leadership in Nigeria, the Giant of Africa, which had woken up from its slumber and is now poised to move the world. "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it," so said Archimedes, "and I shall move the world." Nigeria needs no handouts but real partnerships. We have removed the albatrosses of fuel subsidies and multiple exchange rates from our necks; hence, we are seeking investments for mutually beneficial partnerships, not handouts. Vice President @KashimSM speaking at the UN World Food Systems Financing Model meeting in Rome.