madenigga:

Stop talking like a f00l

sparko1:


Suffer what? You have no idea the damage done with this free trade shit, they just use us and call us shit hoe, 90% of the revenue the get throughout west Africa is from Nigeria, even that stupid Ghana that are making mouth, when we close our border for a year, we will adjust and face out problem squarely.

haaryobhami:
I graduated from a school in Benin republic of,buhari should plz not open the border,make there economy crumble.
those leeches smuggle rice and petrol freely ND they tax us Nigeria students for everything even house paint get tax,yet they disrespect us .
have always said if I ever rule Nigeria I'll close that border for at least 2 Years and deal with the ungrateful cuntts

King44:
are you expecting it to be 10 thousand before?? sure those foreign rice that find their way in should cost 10k before sure the price would sky rocket if we we can't afford it we would start paying attention to local brand of rice that are of high quality and start purchasing that is how it works

That is what a person with common sense would do and keep watching others that are not smart struggle racing with high prices of imported rice, if one could get local quality rice to consume one needs to change ones mentality

If not for the sake of I would be doing free advert I would have like to suggest some Nig brands you should give a try

madenigga:

The free trade doesn't benefit us. Nigeria is more of a consuming country than a producing country.

Apart from oil Nigeria does not export any tangible thing to other countries

GoldHorse:
Walahi una no well at all! Open gini?! We go soon close doors and windows join!

The only thing wey remain na for government to deal with all those saboteurs in Customs so this thing go dey more effective because I still dey see plenty rice "passing" thru my area.

kinglee007:


Bros, the local brand rice are not yet of high quality as you think. Have you consumed it lately? Yes I quite agree that one should patronize his or her locally made products as this is what aids the development of a country. But ask yourself, is Nigeria really there yet?
Regarding the rice ban and smuggling into the country, I will appreciate if the FG had put things in place to ensure that the locally made rice matches the quality of the foreign rice. Afterall, the foreign rice is more consumed not because of it's name "Foreign" but because of the taste. As much as we want to deny this fact, most of us know that the foreign rice tastes quite better than the locally made rice. And this really should not be this way. The FG can implement a "strict monitoring team" to ensure that we get a much more healthy and pleasant rice that is quite good to consume and produced in large quantity that can accommodate much more to consume. Provide the National Association of Rice Producers the adequate funds and support it needs to ensure this is done and let them "Honestly" use these funds for the right purpose and we will see a positive change in the right direction to development. While growing up, I used to know how good the Abakaliki rice used to be. What happened then? Let me guess, not much support from the government or rather, parasitic heads placed in positions they shouldn't have been over the years fed on the funds allocated for this purpose. And as much as this government wants to put us into "the right direction" with strict polices such as the closure of borders, they need to spray the insecticide inside the house and close the doors in other to kill the mosquito parasites within. Imagine if Dangote (and his likes) was given the opportunity to go into rice production in mass. Don't you think there will be a difference? So far so good, his spaghetti, macaroni, sugar, salt and other consumable goods produced by him has to an extent matched the foreign counterparts. This is "locally made". Imagine what will happen if other major locally made rice producers follow suit. Who will complain?
Someone said something about security being curbed to an extent since the closure of the boarders. This to an extent is true. But like I said, "to an extent". Baba has a plan this I know for sure but he needs good advisers that will make his plan work.

May God Bless The Federal Republic Of Nigeria and bring back the Giant (in all areas) in us.

Sprumbaba:


I disagree. This is the time we should take advantage of the situation and get to work to export anything exportable to other part of Africa. I believe our Igbo brothers will take an advantage of this. Our government should be investing in small businesses but the only thing they are doing is handout called Tradermoni.

Angel246:
In taking advantage of the closed border, what do you think can be exported to other African countries?

Angel246:
In taking advantage of the closed border, what do you think can be exported to other African countries?

Foodforthought:

Meanwhile a bag of rice = #22,500. Na hunger go kill una

Nnukwueze:
The Nigerian government is just trying to frustrate Igbo businesses but Igbos will continue to prosper.

Nnukwueze:
The Nigerian government is just trying to frustrate Igbo businesses but Igbos will continue to prosper.

FuckDaMods:

I'm igbo but please close that nonsense you call mouth

Nnukwueze:
The Nigerian government is just trying to frustrate Igbo businesses but Igbos will continue to prosper.

ORIENTATION101:
Nigerians can now see the parasitic relationship of benin and niger republic.
We pay heavily on monthly basis for fuel subsidy . They still smuggle the fuel from Nigeria to their countries without paying tax.

The pay biliions dollars annually import duties to their own govt on Rice's e. t.c .but 90% of the rice re freely smuggled into Nigeria and sold without paying tax.

Nnukwueze:
The Nigerian government is just trying to frustrate Igbo businesses but Igbos will continue to prosper.

King44:
can they put the necessary things in place? that is another thing and another prayer point entirely, I really hope the government would

Nnukwueze:
The Nigerian government is just trying to frustrate Igbo businesses but Igbos will continue to prosper.

Naijaguy123:
Thunder fire una, how can Republic of Benin suddenly become one of the highest importer of rice in the world if not because most are smuggled into Nigeria ?

FemiMaduka:
ECOWAS can go to hell. We can not continue to shoulder the burden of the whole sub-region. For example, we are practically paying to subsidise fuel for the whole region--our fuel find their way into black markets all over the sub-region; we can't keep being the leverage for other economies in the region; we can't continue to allow arms, terrorists, bandits and economic fugitives pour into our space... Enough!

Duggedised12:
Protectionism is key to self preservation . Since the beginning of time ,first world countries have always put measures in place to protect its borders and local market. Some first world countries have put punitive tarrifs as high as 21% on goods to protect their citizens from the Chinese.

These countries get to tax rice and smuggle it through the borders without paying tax to the Nigerian govt, double win for them at the expense of Nigerian economy. Watch "the deceptive promise of free trade" only then will you know these people are only using Nigeria's head with this free trade nonsense they keep reciting.
WITHOUT FREE TRADE ANY COUNTRIES ECONOMY IS DOOMED....INCLUDING DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, NOT TO TALK OF A RELATIVELY UNPRODUCTIVE ZOOLOGICAL COUNTRY LIKE NIGERIA