justbusy:
Why praise a people-choking policy?

Just a matter of time, you shall be happy again. i have had a good thought over this issue and came to a conclusion that las las we all shall be alright.

Bossontop:

Hah.....wen we neva reach any where wey near self sufficiency for rice production??.....mogbe ooo

Las las b4 christmas rice go reach like 50-60k ler bag??

We don die finish!!

Must you eat rice? Make your native soup with plenty meat, fish and eat it with your favourite swallow. We must learn to encourage local food sufficiency, job creation and live within our means.

Story for the gods,soo we should continue buying at rate 30k,why all this loads on the mases?

SocialJustice:
Must you eat rice? Make your native soup with plenty meat, fish and eat it with your favourite swallow. We must learn to encourage local food sufficiency, job creation and live within our means.

Dont mind them
Their brain has been reversed to the wrong direction

They have no shame

They talk as if rice is the only food available

Simple, the border closure is because of rice

gaetano:


You sign #AfCFTA, and then close your border, and then "completely" close the border.

All the while, ignoring that you've lost the ability (for years now), to effectively police the borders.

if you want to ban a commodity, you have to factor in the demand of the commodity and how much your people rely on it. You don't go and ban importation of Rice when the indigenous farmers don't have the necessary quantity demanded by the nationals. There should have been a timeframe before such is implemented

We go learn by force. Hardship will go round.

All these advanced countries pass through this same hardship but Nigerians don't want to suffer...Japan doesn't have any natural resources but they are far ahead....we need to be self sufficient....all the things we should have done in the past is now catching up with us...

Badonasty:


All these advanced countries pass through this same hardship but Nigerians don't want to suffer...Japan doesn't have any natural resources but they are far ahead....we need to be self sufficient....all the things we should have done in the past is now catching up with us...

Don't compare organized countries with us. We are still battling nepotism, corruption, tribalism etc. It takes a unified country to develop a nation. We are no nation. Buhari has been in power since 2015, all your president had to was to subsidize agricultural import products to farmers, let rice farmers begin planting as early as 2017, then give a date like 2019 as a time for rice importation ban. By then, you would have gotten the desired metric tones the feed the population.

gaetano:


You sign #AfCFTA, and then close your border, and then "completely" close the border.

All the while, ignoring that you've lost the ability (for years now), to effectively police the borders.

if you want to ban a commodity, you have to factor in the demand of the commodity and how much your people rely on it. You don't go and ban importation of Rice when the indigenous farmers don't have the necessary quantity demanded by the nationals. There should have been a timeframe before such is implemented

We go learn by force. Hardship will go round.

My friend go back to school and learn your Economics well then come back and comment.

This is a welcome development. With this, in about 6 months, no one will be thinking if foreign Rice again as we should have been self sufficient in Rice production.

Even if we are nit yet, we will eat alternatives

gaetano:

Don't compare organized countries with us. We are still battling nepotism, corruption, tribalism etc. It takes a unified country to develop a nation. We are no nation. Buhari has been in power since 2015, all your president had to was to subsidize agricultural import products to farmers, let rice farmers begin planting as early as 2017, then give a date like 2019 as a time for rice importation ban. By then, you would have gotten the desired metric tones the feed the population.

Bro please read American history you'll know what I'm talking about...read English history and you'll see what I'm talking about...these countries went through worse times than Nigeria

Close to common men,Open to big men and women.if you know you know.....

sylve11:
In as much i don't like APC, PDP or any other party, i just want to say my mind. On this border closure issue, Buhari try.

Unto wetin. It has done more harm dan good. You don go price local rice 4 market? Local rice o no b foreign

gaetano:


You sign #AfCFTA, and then close your border, and then "completely" close the border.

All the while, ignoring that you've lost the ability (for years now), to effectively police the borders.

if you want to ban a commodity, you have to factor in the demand of the commodity and how much your people rely on it. You don't go and ban importation of Rice when the indigenous farmers don't have the necessary quantity demanded by the nationals. There should have been a timeframe before such is implemented

We go learn by force. Hardship will go round.

Do AfCTA encourage snuggling?

ranksz:
This is a welcome development. With this, in about 6 months, no one will be thinking if foreign Rice again as we should have been self sufficient in Rice production.

Even if we are nit yet, we will eat alternatives

do you know that foreign rice smuggling has increased more than before? Why is foreign rice still in the market? Benin rep will never sign the agreement not to export rice into Nigeria because now they are even exporting more. Who is fooling who?

gaetano:


You sign #AfCFTA, and then close your border, and then "completely" close the border.

All the while, ignoring that you've lost the ability (for years now), to effectively police the borders.

if you want to ban a commodity, you have to factor in the demand of the commodity and how much your people rely on it. You don't go and ban importation of Rice when the indigenous farmers don't have the necessary quantity demanded by the nationals. There should have been a timeframe before such is implemented

We go learn by force. Hardship will go round.

No Sensible Investor will invest in an unpromising venture, the easy influx of foriegn rice is discouraging potential investors.
Now with the provision of Grants and soft loans to farmers and the increase in demand for rice, local rice milling and production now look promising.
Beside, if a country with a population of 200 million can't feed itself then we have a problem.

gaetano:


You sign #AfCFTA, and then close your border, and then "completely" close the border.

All the while, ignoring that you've lost the ability (for years now), to effectively police the borders.

if you want to ban a commodity, you have to factor in the demand of the commodity and how much your people rely on it. You don't go and ban importation of Rice when the indigenous farmers don't have the necessary quantity demanded by the nationals. There should have been a timeframe before such is implemented

We go learn by force. Hardship will go round.

AfCYA is for goods made or produced by member states. The rest of your post is typical of that of a smuggler.

If the points listed here is the main reasons why boarder is been closed this is very good. but how are we sure the law enforcement will not take advantage of this to engaged themselves in smuggling and enrich themselves. How does presidency monitor this exercise of boarder closing? ?

Why I believe that rice smuggling from Benin rep can never stop is that the who is who in both Nigeria and Benin are the real actors in it. Foreign rice is still in the market 2 month after border closure and the rice will still be available for ever because that's the strength of Benin rep. What I wish government can do is to allow full duty like yar"dua era. This time make the duty as high as 60%. While any smuggler caught should be made to pay 120% of duty.

SocialJustice:
Must you eat rice? Make your native soup with plenty meat, fish and eat it with your favourite swallow. We must learn to encourage local food sufficiency, job creation and live within our means.

abi na.

docadams:


AfCYA is for goods made or produced by member states. The rest of your post is typical of that of a smuggler.

In other words, he is a smuggler

Badonasty:


All these advanced countries pass through this same hardship but Nigerians don't want to suffer...Japan doesn't have any natural resources but they are far ahead....we need to be self sufficient....all the things we should have done in the past is now catching up with us...

Which advanced nation passed thru this hardship? Was there a time Japan closed their borders?

China had a policy like this under Mao. Millions died and millions more fell into abject poverty.

What happened next? Deng Xiaoping came and opened the Chinese market to international trade. What happened next will shock us.

According to the World Bank, more than 850 million people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty as China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015.

Nigerians should please google how Deng Xiaoping did it. Read up on economics,google how other nations did theirs. Please don't allow serpents deceive you into believing that this border blockage is good.

Nigerian businessmen also export goods to Ecowas Community and these businesses pay tax. Ecowas trade is worth $300 bn annually.

signz:


Which advanced nation passed thru this hardship? Was there a time Japan closed their borders?

China had a policy like this under Mao. Millions died and millions more fell into abject poverty.

What happened next? Deng Xiaoping came and opened the Chinese market to international trade. What happened next will shock us.

According to the World Bank, more than 850 million people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty as China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015.

Nigerians should please google how Deng Xiaoping did it. Read up on economics,google how other nations did theirs. Please don't allow serpents deceive you into believing that this border blockage is good.

Nigerian businessmen also export goods to Ecowas Community and these businesses pay tax. Ecowas trade is worth $300 bn annually.

my client ginger enroute to Mali has rotten in Seme border worth millions. So many importers and exporters borrowed money from the bank to do business now the banks are on their neck because no one knows when the border will be opened or some their goods have gotten spoilt. These people have staff that they pay salaries, they pay tax, they pay duty.

signz:


Which advanced nation passed thru this hardship? Was there a time Japan closed their borders?

China had a policy like this under Mao. Millions died and millions more fell into abject poverty.

What happened next? Deng Xiaoping came and opened the Chinese market to international trade. What happened next will shock us.

According to the World Bank, more than 850 million people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty as China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015.

Nigerians should please google how Deng Xiaoping did it. Read up on economics,google how other nations did theirs. Please don't allow serpents deceive you into believing that this border blockage is good.

Nigerian businessmen also export goods to Ecowas Community and these businesses pay tax. Ecowas trade is worth $300 bn annually.

Sir...in the 18/19th century Japan was isolated...it's European countries and America that forced them to open up so as to have market for their products...you can't compare a totalitarian regime to a democracy....Nigeria can't get to that point which China got to...we can't keep importing every and anything...it doesn't even make sense...did government stop them from exporting?

Badonasty:


Sir...in the 18/19th century Japan was isolated...it's European countries and America that forced them to open up so as to have market for their products...you can't compare a totalitarian regime to a democracy....Nigeria can't get to that point which China got to...we can't keep importing every and anything...it doesn't even make sense...did government stop them from exporting?

Please go to front page now and see that Export has been included. Thank you

lunacol:
There should be aggressive agricultural revolution to produce enough agricultural produce for Nigeria population that is spiraling.

With fulanis slaughtering farmers abi?? Maybe u can ask Olu falea or whatever his name is.....

All I can say is sai baba!!!!

Empredboy:
my client ginger enroute to Mali has rotten in Seme border worth millions. So many importers and exporters borrowed money from the bank to do business now the banks are on their neck because no one knows when the border will be opened or some their goods have gotten spoilt. These people have staff that they pay salaries, they pay tax, they pay duty.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!

Also people from other Ecowas nations come to Balogun, Computer Village, Trade Fair, etc to buy goods and transport by road.

Watch as importers will start diverting some of their containers meant for Nigeria to Ghana and it'll affect our govt revenue. We're losing manufacturers to Ghana and now we're about to lose importers to Ghana.

Y does buhari prefer black eye glass

Those wey dey praise this government say dem try as if the masses no go suffer.
A bag of rice go reach 50k by December.
The elites and other tif tif politicians no go feel am na ordinary masses wey minimum wage no go fit buy a bag of rice.
Economic plan wey nor put the masses into consideration.
When we go conquer hunger for this country?