Lieutenant-General Olusegun Obasanjo launching “Operation Feed the Nation” 1976 Nigeria 🇳🇬🇳🇬

In 1971 the military government of General Yakubu Gowon commissioned a detailed investigation into agriculture and discovered that if the pace of food production continued at its then present level, Nigeria's food requirements would exceed its output by 16 million metric tonnes by 1985.