Should Senate Tackle Customs for Rice Seizure?, by Zubaida Baba Ibrahim       Despite being Africa’s highest producer of rice, Nigeria spent an average of $4.2bn on its importation. These statistics were the basis on which the ban on rice importation was implemented in 2019. The importation ban...

Buhari, Banditry and the North By Usman Abdullahi Koli Recently, more often than before, Nigeria has been trending on both local and international media over ceaseless kidnappings, banditry, robbery and other criminalities in the Country. According to BBC Hausa Service, 16 people were killed on the Abuja–Kaduna...

Freight Forwarders Seek Reopening Of Borders       Freight forwarders under the aegis of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents have tasked the Federal Government to re-open the border in order to benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Area Nigeria had closed all its land borders,...

Dangote Seeks Total Ban On Tomato Importation       The Managing Director, Dangote Tomato Processing plant in Kadawa, Kano State, Abdulkarim Kaita, has called on the Federal government to put a total ban on the importation of tomato paste into the country. He made the call while flagging...

Cameroon Bans Three Chinese Mining Firms The Cameroonian authorities have banned mining operations of three Chinese firms for non-compliance with contractual obligations. Cameroon’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Technological Development has said. The companies, Hong Kong, Peace Mining and Lu, and Lang, the ministry said would no...

How International Rivalry Fuels Boko Haram Insurgency Intelligence reports have continued to indict a neighbouring country and another foreign government of conspiracy in the continued harassment of Nigerian towns and villages in the north eastern parts of the country by Islamists Boko Haram terrorists. Good news...