The Consul General of The Peoples’ Republic of China in Lagos, Chu Maoming, has expressed the importance of sustaining food security, saying, it is sad to see that in many developing countries with food shortage, people do not have enough to eat while in some developed countries, food often goes uneaten and gets dumped in trash cans and the amount of food wasted in developed countries each year is nearly as much as the sum of food produced in sub-Saharan Africa.here...

Maoming shared this observations with Newsmen at the Consulate General’s office in Lagos, where he disclosed that the Chinese government is in earnest efforts to safeguarding global food security, and follows a vision on food security that is centered on ‘self-sufficiency in grain supply and absolute security of staple grains’.

He also said that the Chinese government always attaches great importance to the issue of food security and has managed to feed one fifth of the world’s population with a quarter of the world’s total food production on less than 9 per cent of the world’s arable land, even as a few people in some Western countries have been accusing China of hoarding grains in the international market. “it is unnecessary for China to hoard grains”, he went on, “the year 2021 marks the seventh consecutive year that China secured an annual grain production of over 650 million tonnes.

I must point out that the Chinese government always attaches great importance to the issue of food security. China stands as the world’s largest grain producer and third largest grain exporter. China has the capability and confidence of being self-reliant in securing her own food supply. It is unnecessary for China to ‘hoard grains’ in the international market.”

Also, he said, the achievement is in itself, a significant contribution to world food security. “In the meantime, China has shown its responsibility as a major country and made positive contributions to ensuring global food security. Under the Global Development Initiative put forward by China, food security is one of the eight priority areas of cooperation. China will mobilize efforts from all parties across the globe to draw on each other’s advantages, and pull the strength for achieving all sustainable developmental goals, including food security.

BREAKING: FG Threatens To Drag ASUU To Court As Today’s Meeting Flops Again

News4naijaNov 4, 2020Read original

The federal government has threatened to institute legal actions against the Academic Staff Union of Universities over protracted strike.

Labour and Employment Minister, Chris Ngige, issued the threat at the end of about a three-hour meeting with the leadership of the union in Abuja.

Both parties in their characteristic manner, expressed hope of an end to the industrial action in their opening remarks.

But after more than two hours behind closed doors, ASUU insists nothing new was put on the table.

In an interview with newsmen, the Minister said government may be forced to file a legal case against the striking University teachers to arrest the stalemate.