Closing Nigeria's land border to solve the rice smuggling problem is dumb economics from the Buhari administration. “They do not eat parboiled rice, they eat white rice, they use their ports to try ...

Neighbouring Benin then recorded an astronomical rise in imports from Thailand, the world's second-largest producer. At its height, each of Benin's 11.5 million citizens would have had to consume at ...

The Federal Government says it will shut down the land border between Nigeria and a neighbouring country in a few days time to avoid smuggling of foreign rice into the country. The Minister of ...

The days of heaping 50kg sacks of rice across the saddle of their motorbike and slipping a few notes to a customs officer are now gone. With Nigeria having snapped its borders shut, the legions of ...

Following the closure of Nigeria’s borders by the Federal Government, JESUSEGUN ALAGBE writes about the activities of rice farmers at Ofada, a sleepy community in Ogun State, famous for Ofada rice ...