{"id":226488,"date":"2026-03-10T01:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-lauded-over-extension-of-raw-shea-nut-export-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T01:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:11:12","slug":"nigeria-tinubu-lauded-over-extension-of-raw-shea-nut-export-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-lauded-over-extension-of-raw-shea-nut-export-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Tinubu Lauded Over Extension of Raw Shea Nut Export Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been commended for approving the extension of the ban on the export of raw shea nuts, a policy widely seen as a move to boost local processing and strengthen Nigeria&#8217;s agro-industrial value chain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">An engineer and agribusiness strategist, Alex Omaghomi, who applauded the decision, described it as a significant step towards promoting value addition in the country&#8217;s agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The export restriction, recently extended for another year from February 26, 2026, to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603090683.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>Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been commended for approving the extension of the ban on the export of raw shea nuts, a policy widely seen as a move to boost local processing and strengthen Nigeria&#8217;s agro-industrial value chain. An engineer and agribusiness strategist, Alex Omaghomi, who applauded the decision, described it as a significant step towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7185,10346,11644,16483,257,4687,393,17196,12278,40973,254,8308],"class_list":["post-226488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-export","tag-extension","tag-lauded","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nut","tag-raw","tag-shea","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/226488","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=226488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}