Nigeria may experience shortage of rice in 2019 – Ogbeh
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, says if appropriate measures were not taken to replant after…
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Customs intercepts petrol tanker loaded with 1000 bags of rice
The Nigeria Customs Service, Zone “B” Federal Operations Unit (FOU), has impounded a petrol tanker, a J5 bus and a truck filled…
Smuggling: Rice farmers support closure of border
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) has commended the federal government’s decision to shut down a neighbouring…
Customs seizes N1.3bn contraband
The Nigeria Custom Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone A said that it intercepted vehicles, foreign parboiled rice and poultry…
Customs purchases N1.1b vehicles to tackle rice smugglers
The days of smugglers of rice into the country are numbered as the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is set to buy 50 operational…
Nobody died in encounter with suspected rice smugglers – Customs
The Federal Operations Unit of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Zone A, Ikeja, says no life was lost in its officers’ encounter…
Commotion in Lagos as Customs officers kill rice smuggler [Photos]
There was pandemonium in Abule Egba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Wednesday morning following the killing of a rice smuggler…
Rice, beans importation into Nigeria reduce by over 90% – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja reiterated federal government’s determination to continually review and strengthen…
CBN, RIFAN to crash price of rice
The National President, Rice Farmers Association, Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, has assured Nigerians that the market prices of locally…
Customs discovers new method of smuggling rice
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it has uncovered new methods of smuggling rice at the commercial border town of Mubi in…