 Moving on to business, the federal government says it has completed the distribution of certified seeds and imputes to 150 rice farmers in Sokoto State to cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Abdelai Farouk Na'abu, a representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the state, made the snow in Sokoto. Na'abu said the gesture done in collaboration with the Japan International Agency, JICA, was to part with some of the impute donated to 1,500 farmers across 10 states in the country. According to him, each of the farmers got 50 kg of certified rice seedlings and other imputes for a hectare of farm lands.