Border Closure Boosts Rice Sufficiency, Manufacturing - FG       The Federal Government on Thursday said the closure of Nigeria’s land borders was good for the economy as the country was now close to attaining self sufficiency in rice production. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab...

Border Closure Review: Benefits Still Outweigh Losses — Shippers Council   Against the backdrop of the diversion of cargoes to seaports of other West African countries following the closure of Nigeria’s borders, the Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, has disclosed that a recent policy review meeting has...

Border Closure: Customs Make N7.4bn Seizures, 697 Arrests   The Nigeria Customs Service says it has arrested about 697 illegal immigrants and seized contraband goods worth N7.4bn seven months into the partial closure of the nation’s borders. The Comptroller General, NCS, Hameed Ali, (retd), said this in...

Continued Border Closure Not Sustainable, MAN Says   The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has said that the continued closure of the country’s land borders is unsustainable as many genuine businesses are suffering, and some are at the verge of shutting down. The Director- General, MAN, Segun Ajayi-Kadir,...

Foreign Rice in Nigerian Markets now at 37% -Report The interventions of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) through the partial border closure against smuggling and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) via the AnchorsBorrowers Programme (ABP) on the rice sub-sector of the Nigerian economy, have drastically...

No Date Yet For Border Reopening - FG   The Federal Government has yet to decide a terminal date when the country’s border will be reopened to neighbouring countries. The Federal Government had in August closed its borders to neighbouring countries in an exercise code-named operation Exercise...