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  • Customs seizes smuggled rice worth N101.7m

    Customs seizes smuggled rice worth N101.7m

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has impounded about 1,160 bags of 50kg of foreign parboiled rice and five trucks used to convey them, in Edo. The rice and trucks worth N101.7 million were seized by the Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) Strike Force in zone “C”. Zone “C” comprises Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross Rivers, Akwa-Ibom,…

  • Stop consumption of smuggled rice, FG warns Nigerians

    Stop consumption of smuggled rice, FG warns Nigerians

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    Olaotan Falade
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    The federal government has raised alarm over the unhealthy status of smuggled imported rice being dumped in the country calling on Nigerians not to consume them. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at a media briefing in Lagos said the government could not guarantee the healthy status of the rice having spent months…