President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that his administration will ban rice import in 2018.
The president stated this in his New Year broadcast on Monday, January 1, 2018.
He said, “We have got to get used to discipline and direction in economic management. The days of business as usual are...
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, has stated that the Federal Government did not ban the importation of agricultural produce including rice.
He clarified that all the federal government did was to put measures in place to checkmate the smuggling of rice into the...
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The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Wednesday said there has been an influx of deadly expired rice smuggled into the country via land borders.
The Area Controller of the command, Emmanuel Udo-Aka, who made the assertion at a press briefing in Ibadan yesterday.
He said...
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The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), has ordered the immediate removal of rice from import restriction list and the re-introduction of import duty payment at land borders.
The Public Relations Officer of customs, Mr Wale Adeniyi, disclosed to newsmen in an interview in...
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Importation of rice from the United States to Nigeria has dropped by 300,000 metric tons in the last six months.
According to the Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Economic Research Service report, Nigeria imports dropped by 300,000 tons due to government policy to limit the commodity...
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