{"id":188845,"date":"2025-01-17T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-amidst-cost-of-living-crisis-tinubu-distributes-50kg-of-rice-to-student-union-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:44:43","slug":"nigeria-amidst-cost-of-living-crisis-tinubu-distributes-50kg-of-rice-to-student-union-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-amidst-cost-of-living-crisis-tinubu-distributes-50kg-of-rice-to-student-union-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Amidst Cost of Living Crisis, Tinubu Distributes 50kg of Rice to Student Union Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mr Tinubu&#8217;s flagship economic policies, the removal of petrol subsidy and the floating of the naira, have led to hardship and a cost of living crisis for Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">On Tuesday, President Bola Tinubu distributed 50kg of rice as palliatives to each Student Union Government (SUG) President from tertiary institutions across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">On Tuesday, the President&#8217;s Senior Special Assistant on Student Engagement, Asefon Sunday, said the rice distribution to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501160556.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Tinubu&#8217;s flagship economic policies, the removal of petrol subsidy and the floating of the naira, have led to hardship and a cost of living crisis for Nigerians. On Tuesday, President Bola Tinubu distributed 50kg of rice as palliatives to each Student Union Government (SUG) President from tertiary institutions across the 36 states and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[18631,258,256,6629,3723,24885,4381,7741,257,4687,393,5085,254,11431,8308,6156],"class_list":["post-188845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-50kg","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cost","tag-crisis","tag-distributes","tag-leaders","tag-living","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rice","tag-south-africa-today","tag-student","tag-tinubu","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}