Nigeria Customs Service Raises Alarm over Foreign Massive Rice Smuggling … Customs to Area Controllers: You're Responsible for Officers' Inactions Aiding Rice Smuggling         As massive smuggling of foreign rice into the country's markets persist, the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has directed its Controllers and Unit Heads...

COVID-19: Border Closure on Rice to Nigeria’s Advantage as Prices Skyrocket in International Market- Reports The partial border closure by the Nigerian government has put the last laugh on the faces of rice farmers as the price of rice in the international market has skyrocketed...

RIPAN Warns Local Rice Distributors Over Price Hike   Following the shutdown of the country’s land borders since August, and increase in the price of local rice at several markets, the Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RIPAN) has convened a stakeholders meeting involving officials of the...

Over One Million Metric Tons of Rice Smuggled into Nigeria in 3 Months- RIPAN The Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RIPAN) has raised an alarm that over one million metric tons of rice have been smuggled into Nigeria in the last three months. The Chairman of...

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...