{"id":40,"date":"2014-08-13T07:57:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=40"},"modified":"2014-08-13T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T07:57:14","slug":"dangote-group-1bn-investment-in-rice-production-in-nigeria-excites-president-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Dangote group $1bn investment in rice production in Nigeria excites President Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p>President Goodluck\u00a0 Jonathan Friday gave kudos to the Chairman, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote for investing $1bn) in rice production in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The President made the commendation during the signing of the $1 billion-dollar Rice Investment Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), between the federal government and Dangote Group at the Presidential Villa.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Agriculture, Adewunmi Adesina and Alhaji Dangote signed on behalf of the federal government and Dangote Group respectively.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jonathan,\u00a0 the Dangote Group\u2019s investment is the single largest investment ever made in rice production in Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Goodluck\u00a0 Jonathan Friday gave kudos to the Chairman, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote for investing $1bn) in rice production in the country. The President made the commendation during the signing of the $1 billion-dollar Rice Investment Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), between the federal government and Dangote Group at the Presidential Villa. The Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Goodluck-Jonathan.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}