Tag: rice
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Pandemonium as Customs officers Kill rice smuggler in Lagos
There was pandemonium in Abule Egba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Wednesday morning following the killing of a rice smuggler by suspected Customs officers. It was learnt that customs officers had chased the rice smuggler to Abule Egba in the early hours of Wednesday before shooting him dead and ran away. Police source said…
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![[Photos] Vehicles, bags of rice destroyed as fire guts Customs warehouse in Lagos](https://thenewsguru.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Ikeja-fire.jpg)
[Photos] Vehicles, bags of rice destroyed as fire guts Customs warehouse in Lagos
A warehouse belonging to the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone A was on Thursday gutted by fire in Lagos. The warehouse which was filled with seized vehicles and foreign parboiled rice was destroyed by the fire which occurred about noon. According to an eyewitness, the fire razed substantial part of the warehouse destroying…
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Rice, beans importation into Nigeria reduce by over 90% – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja reiterated federal government’s determination to continually review and strengthen ongoing reforms in the agriculture sector “until Nigeria regains its pride of place as food exporting country.” The president said this when he received a delegation of All Progressives Congress, APC, from Kebbi State, led by the state governor,…
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CBN, RIFAN to crash price of rice soon
The National President, Rice Farmers Association, Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, has assured Nigerians that the market prices of locally produced rice will soon crash. Goronyo said in Abuja on Wednesday that the price of a 50kg-bag of locally produced rice would plummet from N18,000 to between N6,500 and N7000 by April 2018. He said that the…
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Anambra to suspend production, sale of unregistered rice – NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has called on the Anambra Government to suspend production and sale of all unregistered rice labelled “Anambra Rice’’. Mrs Christiana Essenwa, a Deputy Director of NAFDAC, made the call on Monday during a visit to the state Ministry of Agriculture in Awka. Essenwa said…
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Beware of poisonous rice smuggled into the country, FG warns Nigerians
Federal Government on Thursday declared that all foreign brands of rice in the country at the moment were smuggled, adding that some of them were poisonous. According to the government, recent tests conducted by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development showed that most imported rice and poultry products were poisonous, as the commodities…
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Yuletide: LASG commences sale of LAKE rice
The Lagos State Government on Thursday said a large number of bags of LAKE Rice had been approved for sale. The Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Oluwatoyin Suarau, explained in Ikeja that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who facilitated the availability of the product of partnership between Lagos and Kebbi states, had ordered a fair distribution…
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Bello sent thugs, stopped me from donating 1260 bags of rice to civil servants – Melaye
Senator Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West) has accused Governor Yahaya Bello of sending thugs to stop him from sharing the bags of rice and other relief materials donated to civil servants in the state. The bags of rice, numbering 1260, were donated by some senators to aid civil servants in Kogi state who have reportedly not…
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Concerned senators donate 1,300 bags of rice to unpaid Kogi workers
Members of the Senate have donated 1,280 bags of rice as of Wednesday to Kogi State Government workers owed salaries. This was made know by lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, at a press briefing on Wednesday, where said he was spearheading donation of relief materials to Kogi workers over unpaid salaries.…
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Customs generates N1.9bn in 9months, seizes 3, 278 bags of rice, 55 vehicles
The Niger Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service, says it generated N1.9 billion from January to September. The Area Controller, Mr Benjamin Binga, told newsmen on Tuesday in Minna that the command also seized 3, 278 bags of rice and 55 vehicles with Duty Paid Value of N52.6 million and 51.6 million respectively during the…