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Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by OgbeniDawodu: 7:53pm On Oct 14, 2019
PerfectlyPerfect:

Every country on earth imports one food item or the other. The government is banning importation when the local production isn't enough to satisfy the population. That's the highest class of foolishness. They're supposed to ban when local production is equal to or above local consumption, that's how smart countries do
Imagine Nigeria importing fresh tomatoes, besides how can we grow when we import more than we produce.

Man, any nation of Nigeria's size that has problem feeding its population has a big problem.

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Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Spidermon: 7:53pm On Oct 14, 2019
emmasege:
Does the closure extend to the northern borders? Because the last time I checked there were two Nigeria when it comes to laws.

There's a Nigeria where FRSC and police do not mount road blocks to collect toll, and neither does custom ask for duty for cars that are already within the hinterland.

And then there's a Nigeria where laws must be enforced and heavy taxations imposed.

The North continues to feed fat and oppress the south for as long as the south doesn't speak with one voice and we have some misguided Southerners shouting "Afonja" and "Biafra" on nairaland.

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Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Nobody: 8:03pm On Oct 14, 2019
OgbeniDawodu:

Smuggled Foreign rice is a major threat to the local rice production, and it scares investors aways now investors have assurances and government backing.

You sound so funny. There are better ways to go about that. So, we will wait till investors are ready and everyone starts farming. Don't be sentimental with your thinking. look at it critically and access. People will die, business will shut down and after everything investors will run. Why do you think countries don't use such approach? It doesn't ends well. you will see that he is still going to back out and numerous would have loss badly. Wait and see
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by peeps4u: 8:09pm On Oct 14, 2019
Harlem2:
Local product should take over
Unfortunately Nigerians love foreign product

Doesn't your president love foreign goods?
Where does he take treatment?
Where did his wife just come from now for a medical treatment?
Where did his children school?
If it were possible, Yusuff would have done foreign NYSC.

Buhari feels foreign things are good for him and his family only while he suffers Nigerians with bans on foreign goods and make things more expensive and scarce.
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by MusaChukwudi: 8:09pm On Oct 14, 2019
Empredboy:
what about those doing legit export and import from non sea countries?

Legit? Via land border and Benin?
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Mrquote: 8:09pm On Oct 14, 2019
Sirnuel:
What exactly are they aiming to achieve??

Can someone tell these people you don't ban food importation at the end of farming season, you are supposed to do it at the beginning of the year so farmers will know what crops to cultivate.

What do I know, none of these men knows the real cost of goods in the market, all they do is sit around and make useless policies. This is going to be the worse xmas ever.
Things go cost eh
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by MusaChukwudi: 8:14pm On Oct 14, 2019
PerfectlyPerfect:

Every country on earth imports one food item or the other. The government is banning importation when the local production isn't enough to satisfy the population. That's the highest class of foolishness. They're supposed to ban when local production is equal to or above local consumption, that's how smart countries do

You are talking NONSENSE!

200m people with so much land, water, sun and air cannot feed themselves? Are you serious! I pray hunger KILL everybody in this FFKING country.

We all can't run to Lagos, Abuja and P/H.

All we are FFK good for is Konji and making useless babies like rats! I hope HUNGER kill all of una.

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Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Bimpe29: 8:14pm On Oct 14, 2019
This is really good. I hope it fulfils the purpose for which it's conceived.
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Area4Area: 8:15pm On Oct 14, 2019
oldtruth:


You sound so funny. There are better ways to go about that. So, we will wait till investors are ready and everyone starts farming. Don't be sentimental with your thinking. look at it critically and access. People will die, business will shut down and after everything investors will run. Why do you think countries don't use such approach? It doesn't ends well. you will see that he is still going to back out and numerous would have loss badly. Wait and see
So how do we encourage investors to come in? Is it by opening our borders to cheap smuggled rice?
Did you just say other countries don't use such approach, Japan placed high tariffs on imported rice decades ago and still maintaining it despite the harassment from the US, Switzerland still maintains high tariffs on some of their food imports, the EU did theirs by stylishly putting regulations on packaging of food from outside, the US has increased its tariffs on certain goods into the country in order to protect their manufacturers and several other countries, this step by the FG is long overdue

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Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by MusaChukwudi: 8:19pm On Oct 14, 2019
Sirnuel:
What exactly are they aiming to achieve??

Can someone tell these people you don't ban food importation at the end of farming season, you are supposed to do it at the beginning of the year so farmers will know what crops to cultivate.

What do I know, none of these men knows the real cost of goods in the market, all they do is sit around and make useless policies. This is going to be the worse xmas ever.

I HOPE HUNGER KILL ALL USELESS 200m low IQ people of this FFKING country. You have so much land, water, air and SUN yet you refuse to produce good to eat? You insist on importing food?

What are you all doing in LAGos? Vacating your village and farmlands? Make HUNGER kill all of. Una!

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Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Area4Area: 8:19pm On Oct 14, 2019
peeps4u:


Doesn't your president love foreign goods?
Where does he take treatment?
Where did his wife just come from now for a medical treatment?
Where did his children school?
If it were possible, Yusuff would have done foreign NYSC.

Buhari feels foreign things are good for him and his family only while he suffers Nigerians with bans on foreign goods and make things more expensive and scarce.
You guys just don't want to understand anything, nothing was banned and you can still import rice through our ports and pay the normal tariffs to the government but you cannot smuggle it in after paying the tariffs to the Benin rep government and moreover the FG wants Nigeria to be self sufficient in rice production

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Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Mrquote: 8:20pm On Oct 14, 2019
OgbeniDawodu:

Imagine Nigeria importing fresh tomatoes, besides how can we grow when we import more than we produce.

Man, any nation of Nigeria's size that has problem feeding its population has a big problem.
How about refined petro.
We have it here but still import it why not place a ban on imported petro to force us to repair our refinery.
The system is keep them this way and the pp won't fight back (hunger) in the land
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Nobody: 8:22pm On Oct 14, 2019
Area4Area:
So how do we encourage investors to come in? Is it by opening our borders to cheap smuggled rice?
Did you just say other countries don't use such approach, Japan placed high tariffs on imported rice decades ago and still maintaining it despite the harassment from the US, Switzerland still maintains high tariffs on some of their food imports, the EU did theirs by stylishly putting regulations on packaging of food from outside, the US has increased its tariffs on certain goods into the country in order to protect their manufacturers and several other countries, this step by the FG is long overdue

Love this... Wonderful!! Now why can't they stopped it out rightly like Nigeria? It doesn't work. Thanks for the examples
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by MusaChukwudi: 8:22pm On Oct 14, 2019
IceColdVeins:
Can someone analyze how the closure of borders will benefit me as an individual?
Cos all I see is inflation and famine.

May I remind you the rationale for this very closure of borders? Its is almost solely to curb the issue of smuggling..... not just staple foods but everything....up from car spare parts down to your okirika clothes. We all know how exorbitant it is to clear container from the customs point due to high import duties and recalcitrant briberies. Now that aside!!

Closure of the bordering gates to curb smuggling analytically means all or most of the smuggled products come through those gates
Now this should be the logic
1. smuggling is corruption (unarguable)
2. All smuggled commodities come through the border (very arguable)
Closure of border will curb/reduce smuggling...........fine
Mitigation of corruption at the borders will curb/reduce smuggling.........fine
Since smuggling is a function of corruption in the borders (S=f(c)) Why not tackle corruption at the borders instead of subjecting the common man to more hardship without putting in place any form of ''shock-absorber''
When America wanted to boost their local steel production value that importation had almost crippled, you know what they did? they didnt even halt the importation, rather they lifted taxes on the local ores and placed huge taxes on the imported. Diplomatically, the market tilted to the side of the local steel production. Now this is how policies from informed set of parliaments look like.
I have always said this, until Nigeria starts to run the government&police like a corporate organisation(bottom-up approach), where KPIs(key performance indicators) are reviewed, operations externally audited with impending sanctions for code of conducts breachers, only then the government can function.
You've been shouting farming, need I remind you that locally made rice as a case study is always double the price of the imported. Now the imported has been banned, you think the prices of local rice would go down? Check your law of supply!!! Anyways thanks God fake/non-durable aba made clothings will be glorified atlast cos nobody go fit afford the original which import duties go don almost choke to death. So poor rats will be poorer cos aba made will now be more expensive once the demand increases.

Government did the right thing for sure but it was poorly strategized and for the wrong cause!!!
Anyways, Orun nyabo, kon shoro enikan (IF sky dey fall, na all of us head e go knack)
Body go teh u!!

This is Nigeria! The 200m people are useless! If they cannot grow enough food to eat despite huge availability of land, water, air, SUN then let them DIE of hunger! Awon oloriburuku people!
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Area4Area: 8:23pm On Oct 14, 2019
oldtruth:


Love this... Wonderful!! Now why can't they stopped it out rightly like Nigeria? It doesn't work. Thanks for the examples
Go read up on the economies of those countries I gave and see that they are still maintaining it till date and how it is working for them
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by OgbeniDawodu: 8:23pm On Oct 14, 2019
oldtruth:


You sound so funny. There are better ways to go about that. So, we will wait till investors are ready and everyone starts farming. Don't be sentimental with your thinking. look at it critically and access. People will die, business will shut down and after everything investors will run. Why do you think countries don't use such approach? It doesn't ends well. you will see that he is still going to back out and numerous would have loss badly. Wait and see
No, the FG has been preparing and setting things in motion for this period, because how come Cosharis finished his Rice milling plant the same period the border was closed.
Many Nigerians never thought it would get to this stage. Many thought it was an empty threat. The Gov't is so committed to this course.

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Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Nobody: 8:26pm On Oct 14, 2019
Area4Area:
Go read up on the economies of those countries I gave and see that they are still maintaining it till date and how it is working for them

Maintaining what? High tarrifs or ouright ban?
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by MusaChukwudi: 8:26pm On Oct 14, 2019
oldtruth:


Love this... Wonderful!! Now why can't they stopped it out rightly like Nigeria? It doesn't work. Thanks for the examples

Did Nigeria ban importation of rice outrightly? NO! Get your facts right and stop being ignorant and stupid. The government says import your foreign rice through the ports and pay your duties. The government says don't bring rice through land borders or smuggle it through land borders, ok? Learn!

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Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Area4Area: 8:29pm On Oct 14, 2019
MusaChukwudi:


Did Nigeria ban importation of rice outrightly? NO! Get your facts right and stop being ignorant and stupid. The government says import your foreign rice through the ports and pay your duties. The government says don't bring rice through land borders or smuggle it through land borders, ok? Learn!
This has been what we've being trying to educate them but they fail to listen, just shouting ban, ban, ban upandan when nothing was banned
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Area4Area: 8:31pm On Oct 14, 2019
oldtruth:


Maintaining what? High tarrifs or ouright ban?
High tariffs and remember no banning in the case of Nigeria, just increased tariff and you must import through our seaports
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by OgbeniDawodu: 8:36pm On Oct 14, 2019
Mrquote:

How about refined petro.
We have it here but still import it why not place a ban on imported petro to force us to repair our refinery.
The system is keep them this way and the pp won't fight back (hunger) in the land
Actually, u are a funny one, the war is against smuggled foreign rice because rice entering through ports can be controlled but majority of Nigerians preferred to smuggle through land border at lower cost.
And its Official that Nigeria is trying to reduce our imports and food is more easier to produce locally than refined petroleum products.
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by tosine102: 8:40pm On Oct 14, 2019
Well this was what India did to be where they are today
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Mrquote: 8:42pm On Oct 14, 2019
OgbeniDawodu:

Actually, u are a funny one, the war is against smuggled foreign rice because rice entering through ports can be controlled but majority of Nigerians preferred to smuggle through land border at lower cost.
And its Official that Nigeria is trying to reduce our imports and food is more easier to produce locally than refined petroleum products.
Please how funny because if I check na u start am
Na only rice we dey eat for here abi.
Don't we have official at this boarder (custom).
Always making excuse
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Nobody: 8:42pm On Oct 14, 2019
Area4Area:
High tariffs and remember no banning in the case of Nigeria, just increased tariff and you must import through our seaports

Lies my brother! Rice is contraband. Kindly verify
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Nobody: 8:43pm On Oct 14, 2019
MusaChukwudi:


Did Nigeria ban importation of rice outrightly? NO! Get your facts right and stop being ignorant and stupid. The government says import your foreign rice through the ports and pay your duties. The government says don't bring rice through land borders or smuggle it through land borders, ok? Learn!

Must you be stupid?
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Nobody: 8:44pm On Oct 14, 2019
OgbeniDawodu:

No, the FG has been preparing and setting things in motion for this period, because how come Cosharis finished his Rice milling plant the same period the border was closed.
Many Nigerians never thought it would get to this stage. Many thought it was an empty threat. The Gov't is so committed to this course.

Because no sane government would have done such. Let me make something clear to you. If high tarrif is being introduced on imported rice and no tarrif on local production, the citzens will choose what is best for them. With that businesses will adjust and lane defined. Now, people goods are being left to rotten, huge debt recorded etc. Things don't work this way
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Area4Area: 8:49pm On Oct 14, 2019
oldtruth:


Lies my brother! Rice is contraband. Kindly verify

https://www.onlinedailys.com/list-contraband-goods-nigeria/

Stop spewing your ignorance, you won't do any research and you still don't want to learn when they try to educate you

Go through that link my friend!
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Area4Area: 8:51pm On Oct 14, 2019
oldtruth:


Must you be stupid?
Who is the stupid one now?
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by OgbeniDawodu: 8:52pm On Oct 14, 2019
oldtruth:


Because no sane government would have done such. Let me make something clear to you. If high tarrif is being introduced on imported rice and no tarrif on local production, the citzens will choose what is best for them. With that businesses will adjust and lane defined. Now, people goods are being left to rotten, huge debt recorded etc. Things don't work this way
Smugglers don't pay tariffs to Nigerian Gov't brother, they only pay settlements(bribes).
This case is personal Benin Rep. �� charges low tarriffs on those goods at their ports and those goods finds their way into Nigerian �� Markets destabilizing our economy.
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Nobody: 8:55pm On Oct 14, 2019
Area4Area:


https://www.onlinedailys.com/list-contraband-goods-nigeria/

Stop spewing your ignorance, you won't do any research and you still don't want to learn when they try to educate you

Go through that link my friend!

Thought you are sensible. Never knew was talking to kids. Go and import rice. Even at 45% people still import then. Rice can't be imported lnto the country fool
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by Area4Area: 8:57pm On Oct 14, 2019
oldtruth:


Thought you are sensible. Never knew was talking to kids. Go and import rice. Even at 45% people still import then. Rice can't be imported lnto the country fool
Have you gone through the link, if yes did you see rice on the list of contraband as you claimed?
Just agree that you messed yourself up with your over sabi when you know next to nothing
Re: FG Bans Import, Export Of All Goods At Land Borders by OgbeniDawodu: 8:57pm On Oct 14, 2019
The situation on ground means Benin Republic �� should import/Produce Products their can consume in their country.
Not the case of them a country of less than 2.5 million importing rice for 200 million people.

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