The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the officers broke into shops and warehouses in the market taking away no fewer than eight truckloads of bags of rice.
Browsing: foreign rice
The Nigerian Army has intercepted a petrol tanker conveying 100 bags of foreign rice in Nsukka axis of Enugu State.
Officers and men of the Adamawa/Taraba Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Friday raided Mubi town market for foreign rice and other contraband.
Babatunde Ajibola, Head, Media and Communications, Elephant Group Plc, on Friday in Lagos said that massive rice smuggling into the country was threatening the confidence and ability of local rice millers and farmers.
The Controller of the unit, Alhaji Usman Dakingari, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Katsina on Wednesday.
“The rice then becomes poisonous and we have banned cooking of non-Ebonyi rice inside the state’s Government House, hotels and public functions