Border Closure: Prices Of Rice, Eggs Skyrocket In October, Says NBS   The average price of one kilogram of imported high quality rice (sold loose) increased by 3.08 per cent to N382.57 in October, 2019 from N371.13 in September 2019. The selected food price watch data for...

Dangote Group: Soon Nigeria Will Become A Rice Exporting Nation   The Dangote Group has pledged to change Nigeria’s narrative as a rice importing nation, to major exporter of the staple food. The group said that its 150,000 hectares rice farmlands in Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Niger,...

Ghana Reveals Plan To Ban Rice, Poultry Imports   Rice importers would be ordered to cease their trade in three years if everything goes as planned, Ghana’s Agric Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto, has said. The same applies to persons who import poultry products. The policy, if implemented would...

Customs Seize 34 Containers Of Rice At TinCan Port   The Nigeria Customs Service has announced the seizure of 34 containers of rice smuggled through the Tin Can Island port in Lagos. The Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali (retd), disclosed this in Lagos on Tuesday. He said...

Customs Seize Rice Smuggled Inside Motorcycles Petrol Tanks   The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, Ikeja, has announced that it intercepted foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country through the fuel tanks of motorcycles (also known as Okada). Speaking to newsmen in...

Border Closure: Prices Of Rice, Frozen Chicken Rise   The closure of the country’s borders seems to have led to increase in prices of some food items such as rice, frozen chicken and turkey. Observers say if the borders are not opened before December, it portends a...