The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has provided an explanation for the delay in implementing the import duty waiver on maize, husked brown rice, and wheat. NCS...
To address rising food prices, the Federal Government has begun the sale of 30,000 metric tons of milled rice at a subsidized rate of N40,000 per...
Uba Maigari, the Minister of State for Steel Development, has outlined recent federal government actions aimed at alleviating the economic hardship faced by Nigerians. During a...
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has expressed sadness at the death of some Nigerians buying rice at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) office in...
Needy Nigerians will from today, Friday, February 23, 2024 be able to purchase food items like rice, beans, millet, guinea corn, soya beans and garri at...
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, on Wednesday, disclosed that the state has taken delivery of 3000 bags of rice from the Federal Government as...
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria and Tiamin Rice Company have signed a memorandum of agreement for the processing and sale of rice domestically and abroad....
In continuation of its clamp down on banned goods into the country, Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘D’, have seized contraband...
Despite stringent measures taken by the present administration to stop the importation of rice, Nigeria continues to rely on imports to meet local demands. According to...
Five residents of Jibia in Katsina State have been reportedly killed by Customs officials, who were chasing rice smugglers in the area. Ripples Nigeria learnt that...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has disclosed that it impounded 13 vehicles, 314 bags of imported rice and some other goods worth over N60 million in...
As Nigeria grapples with rising food prices, Aminu Goronyo the president of Nigerian Rice Farmers Association has explained why the cost of rice is skyrocketing in...
The Zamfara State Government has disclosed that it spent the sum of N2.9 billion on the purchase of essential commodities for distribution to various categories of...
Rice millers under the aegis of Rice Millers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN), have cried out over the looting of its plants in parts of the country...
Nigeria has become Africa’s biggest rice producer, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Sabo Nanono said in Abuja on Tuesday at an occasion commemorating the 2020...
According to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the nation’s spending on commodities: rice, wheat, fish and sugar reached N1.3 trillion in the last one year....
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said it seized 34 containers of rice smuggled through the Tin Can Island port in Lagos, some of which have...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘’rice revolution’’ is laudable. Before the ‘’crop rebellion’’, Nigeria spent about $1.65 billion annually importing rice from Thailand and India. But the country...
There are indications that Nigerians may go through more difficulties as Nigeria Customs Service on Monday announced an indefinite ban on importation and exportation of goods...
Nigeria’s land borders are to remain closed until the country is able to agree with its neighbours on existing ECOWAS protocol on movement, the Comptroller General...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed that loans granted about 550,000 rice farmers in the country who were affected by the 2018 flooding be...
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has expressed fear over a likelihood of rice shortage across the country next year, which may...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said the rice seedling factory in Calabar would reduce rice importation along Nigeria’s borders, thereby saving the nation’s foreign exchange. Buhari,...
In what many may regard as good news, the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) have said that rice, a popularly staple food in Nigeria, will...
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has condemned the high rate of smuggling of rice and poultry products into the country and described the practice as “economic...
Despite expectations that Nigeria would be 60 per cent self-sufficient in rice production by 2017, indications are that actualising such a dream is unrealistic as more...
The Federal Government on Monday declared that the price of rice would start to fall from November this year. It stated that more Nigerians had returned...
Nigerians may be in for worse times in the months to come, as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Saturday,...
There was a shootout between policemen and soldiers on Thursday over the distribution of rice to indigent people at the Borno State Government House, Maiduguri. One...
Tomatoes is a favourite staple in Nigeria, and so, a large number of locals who cannot cope with the inflation in its price are hesitant to...
By Remi Oyeyemi If the purpose of government is to ease the lives of the people, then it is time for President Mohammadu Buhari to really...
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sonny Echono, has said that the Federal Government intends to review the import policy on rice...
In from Ali Smart … The federal government has vowed to go after importers who enjoyed waivers to import rice but went ahead to exceed the...
Nigeria over the years has become a net importer of food, and major importer of wheat, rice, fish and sugar, spending over N1 trillion of foreign...
