Closely tied to insecurity is the adverse impact it has on food security. In the last eight years, farmers in food producing belts have been chased out of their farms by bandits and terrorists. This development has exposed the country to less production and higher food prices. This is unacceptable and must be reversed. The Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), in a policy brief posted in March this year reported that the number of food-insecure Nigerians increased significantly, from 66.2 million in the first quarter of 2023 to 100 million in the first quarter of 2024, citing data from
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