Popular Farms Invests $70m To Boost Rice, Sesame Production   The management of Popular Farms and Mills Limited, a subsidiary of Stallion group has invested over $70 million to boost production of varieties of agricultural produces especially on paddy rice and sesame in Nigeria, as to...

Boosting Rice Production, Tackling Smuggling   The battle to end the importation of rice into the country through the illicit activities of smuggling may be far from been totally won. Yet, the determination on the part of the Federal Government to boost its production through massive...

Customs Records Higher Seizures Of Rice, Petrol   Barely three weeks into the intensive joint border patrol, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) yesterday, declared that the joint border security agencies have recorded massive seizures and arrests from its North West, North Central, South West, and South-South...

Customs To Pay N5.5bn For Illegal Seizure Of Rice   The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Nigeria Customs Service and its board chairman to pay about N5.5bn to Maggpiy Trading TFZE for unlawfully seizing 90 containers of rice imported by the company. Delivering...

Nigeria Consumes N1.2bn Worth Of Rice Daily — RIFAN Nigeria consumes a minimum of N1.2bn worth of rice every day, the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria stated on Wednesday. RIFAN said its findings also showed that virtually all rice consumed across the country were cultivated and...

Over 70% of Rice in Nigerian Markets are Foreign- Investigations …. Customs, CBN React Despite concrete and visible interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) via the Anchors Borrowers Programme (ABP) on the rice sub-sector of the Nigerian economy, over seventy percent (70%) of rice...