The high cost of food items across the country will linger for months due to the effects of insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic on food production, Nigerian farmers have said. According to them, the production of food had dropped and this has further escalated the prices of agricultural commodities nationwide. Speaking under the aegis of All Farmers Association of Nigeria, the food producers said the hike in prices of agricultural produce, as confirmed by the National Bureau of Statistics, would persist for a while. The NBS had confirmed the high cost of...