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Palliative: Customs Begins Sale of 25kg Rice for N10,000
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, will today commence the sale of seized bags of rice to the public at the rate of N10,000 per 25kg . Disclosing this to newsmen in Lagos, Comptroller General of the NCS, Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, said the process for the sale of the food items has been perfected such that…
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Abiodun Orders Supply of 100 Trailers of Subsidized Rice
*To be distributed Free for the Elderly By Abimbola Bamgbose As part of the efforts to cushion the high cost of foodstuffs currently affecting the nation, Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has ordered the supply of one hundred trailers of bags of rice for residents Governor Abiodun gave the order at a stakeholder’s meeting…
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Smugglers Conceal 1,245 Rounds of Ammunition in Rice Bags
By Olusegun Folarin The Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted one thousand, two hundred and forty five rounds of live ammunition concealed in bags of rice. The Controller of Customs, Ogun Area 1 Command, Mr Bamidele Makinde, who announced this to journalists in Abeokuta said the five vehicles conveying the ammunition, were intercepted on a bush…
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Increasing Investment in Large Scale Production of Rice
Nigeria is one of the countries of the world blessed with green land for agriculture which her forefathers were known for. No wonder in the southern part of the country, school pupils are made to memorize a song in Yoruba language that western education without hoe and cutlasses is not a complete education. Previous administrations…
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FG, Ekiti Govt. Empowers Hundreds of Rice Farmers
As part of efforts to increase rice production in Ekiti State, Federal Government has empowered hundreds of rice farmers across the sixteen local government areas. The empowerment which was supervised by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and an Insurance company took place in Igbemo Ekiti where the farmers went home with herbicides, knapsacks, sprayers and…
