Subsidy removal: 18,000 vulnerable persons to get N10,000 monthly palliative in Ondo | TheCable
on Thursday, Wale Akinterinwa, the commissioner for finance and chairman of the palliative strategy and implementation committee, said
Akinterinwa added that all the state and local government pensioners would also receive N10,000 each from August to December.Advertisement “Farm inputs at subsidised rates will be made available to farmers. Our poultry and fish farmers will be given free drugs, maize and feeds,” he said. He said tricycles will be provided for farmers to aid the movement of farm produce, adding that those in riverine areas will be provided with fishing nets and kilns to equip them for fish farming.
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