{"id":227083,"date":"2026-03-17T01:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-middle-east-war-no-petrol-no-food-for-nigerians\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:27:07","slug":"nigeria-middle-east-war-no-petrol-no-food-for-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-middle-east-war-no-petrol-no-food-for-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Middle East War &#8211; No Petrol, No Food for Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em>&#8211;farmers worry over rising costs of fuel<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">AS pump price of petrol continues to rise following the war in the Middle East which hiked the price of crude, Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, and farmers have warned about the grave implications and dangers the situation poses to the economy and Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><strong>We ask FG to make fuel available, affordable &#8211;AFAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The National President, All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Mohammed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603160737.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>&#8211;farmers worry over rising costs of fuel AS pump price of petrol continues to rise following the war in the Middle East which hiked the price of crude, Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, and farmers have warned about the grave implications and dangers the situation poses to the economy and Nigerians. We ask FG to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227084,"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":[258,256,6719,5074,16940,257,4687,393,6665,7453,254,6618],"class_list":["post-227083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east","tag-food","tag-middle","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-petrol","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"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\/227083","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=227083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}