Fatimah Aliyu, a Deputy Director, Rice Value Chain in the ministry, stated this in Abuja.
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Usman Dakingari, the Controller, FOU Zone B, dropped the hint while addressing journalists on the seizures in Kaduna on Wednesday.
He said this in a statement issued by the Consul, Olanrewaju Badmus in Badagry, Lagos on Wednesday.
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Al-Hassan, stated this in New York at Nigeria’s side event during the ongoing 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
The Comptroller for Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara Command of NCS, Nasir Ahmad, made the disclosure to newsmen on Friday in Sokoto.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Bagudu gave the assurance when he spoke to newsmen after meeting with the Rice Distributors Association of Nigeria and the Rice Millers Association of Nigeria in Lagos on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that about 18, 000 farmers were supported by the Central Bank of Nigeria, under its Anchor Borrower scheme in the state.
The Adamawa/Taraba Area Comptroller of the service, Adetoye Francis, said this while inspecting a tipper lorry truck and two tricycles loaded with suspected smuggled rice in Mubi town on Wednesday.
Dr. Christiana Esenwa, the Coordinator of NAFDAC in Anambra State, made the appeal when she led a team of the agency to the state Ministry of Agriculture in Awka on Monday.
The President, who was represented by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, spoke at the 25th Edition of the Nigeria Media Merit Award ceremony in Lagos on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, the Minister, quoting figures from the Thailand Rice Exporters Association said rice importation from Thailand, which supplies the bulk of the parboiled rice being imported into Nigeria, dropped from 644,131 Metric Tonnes to about 21,000 MT between September 2015 and September 2017.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the Federal Government banned the importation of rice to protect local rice farmers and promote local rice consumption in the country.
Obasanjo said the move of his military regime was scuttled by the regime of Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari
Umahi, a member of the Presidential Taskforce on Rice and Wheat, who addressed newsmen on Friday in Abakaliki, expressed regret over the persistent incidences of rice smuggling in the country
Joseph Attah, the Public Relations Officer of the NSC, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the Service has taken its war against rice smuggling to the FTZs
A resident, Richard Nku, told NAN that he preferred the Nigerian grown and processed rice to foreign one for various reasons.
Nku said: “It is cheaper, more affordable and even sweeter than foreign rice
Aminu Goronyo, the National President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, made the call in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday
Labaran said 90,000 farmers were targeted for wheat production which would commence in November 2016; while 90,000 farmers were targeted for rice production in early 2017
The association said the target will be achieved on the platform of Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers Programme, in collaboration with the Kano State Government
This was revealed by the Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh