Rice Smuggling

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that foreign parboiled rice is still imported through the nation's seaports to bonded warehouses despite prohibition. Rice is among the items on the federal government prohibition list and it is the…

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The Benin Republic Ambassador to Nigeria, Mrs Paulette Yekpe, has said that the proposed tripartite meeting by Nigeria, Niger and her country, will establish a framework to address rice smuggling. Yekpe said this while briefing…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has expressed willingness to partner with the Ebonyi State Government to curtail smuggling of foreign rice. Mr Sulaiman Sani, the Area Comptroller, Ebonyi, Enugu and the Anambra States made the pledge in…