Rice

10 rice smugglers arrested in Akwa Ibom

Ten suspected smugglers have been arrested in Akwa Ibom State with 956 bags of…

Rice, other contrabands smuggled into Nigeria in caskets, tyres, gas cylinders – Customs

The Nigeria Customs Service says ingenuity deployed by criminals or smugglers has made it…

Customs to seal off supermarkets, shops selling foreign rice

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it will seal off shops and supermarkets selling…

Stray bullet hits civilian as Customs, rice smugglers engage in gun duel in Ogun

Men of the Nigerian Customs Service and suspected smugglers engage in a gun battle…

Rice smuggling: Nigerians have natural tendency to commit crime – Hameed Ali

The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col Hameed Ali (retd) has said…

Why Nigerian rice have stones – farmers

The Nigeria Farmers Group and Cooperative Society (NFGCS), on Tuesday, said the reason rice…

13 arrested with 2,053 bags of smuggled rice in Akwa Ibom

No fewer than 13 people have been arrested with 2,053 bags of smuggled rice…

Nigeria is Africa’s largest producer of rice – Group

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has commended Nigeria as the number one rice producer…

Army intercepts 85 bags of smuggled rice in Ebonyi

The Nigerian Army has intercepted 85 bags of smuggled rice in a compound in…

Navy arrests 24 suspected smugglers, seizes 1,831 bags of rice in Akwa Ibom

Nigerian Naval operatives attached to the Forward Operating Base (FOB), Ibaka, Mbo local government…

Customs seize 2,540 bags of rice, 12 vehicles, 500 tyres, others despite border closure

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Oyo/ Osun Command on Wednesday, said it has intercepted…

21-year-old man beheads woman, eats her brain with rice

A 21-year-old man, Lloyd Bagtong, allegedly killed, decapitated and feasted on the brains of…

No date yet for reopening of Nigeria’s borders, President Buhari insists

President Muhammadu Buhari says he has not given any date for the reopening of…

Customs seize rice, oil, vehicles, others worth N43m in one week in Kaduna

The Zone B of Nigeria Customs Service Federal Operations Unit Kaduna, on Thursday said…

Lawmaker to Nigerians: If you don’t want to eat Nigerian grown rice, that’s your own problem

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Adamu Abdullahi, has said that any Nigerian not…