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.

FYI rice importation through our ports is not banned, take note of that.
Only smuggling of same rice through our borders that stopped, you can still import rice through our ports as we speak

Obere4u:


Do AfCTA encourage snuggling?

Most posters don't know what is being talked about but they just must comment,

Empredboy:
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?

Can you give us a proof or link of increased smuggling across the border? People are still allowed to import rice through our ports

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.

It is nonsense!

I dont want to spend precious time needed elsewhere in a waste analysing Buhari's border closure bullshyyyte....but let me just say it is nonsense!

Empredboy:
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.

Foreign rice will always be in the market because you can import it through the seaport...


Do you understand?

Nice one

signz:


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.

Loose importers to Ghana? You have forgotten that the items being imported are mostly meant for the Nigerian market.

Why didn't they close the border with Chad republic?
That's where the problem is...
I think someone bad is about to happen in Nigeria...

Something that once IPOB bomb the zoo borders entrances with Biafra/IPOB technologies, who will stand to defend the useless borders

signz:


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

Just seeing that now...but they can export through the seaports

Hmmm

Okoroawusa:

Foreign rice will always be in the market because you can import it through the seaport...


Do you understand?

its been ban through the sea port at the same time of was ban through the land border that was about 5 years ago

Okoroawusa:

Foreign rice will always be in the market because you can import it through the seaport...


Do you understand?

you can't import check this link https://businessday.ng/news/article/rice-imports-technically-banned-traded-goods-nigerian-ports/

Area4Area:
Can you give us a proof or link of increased smuggling across the border? People are still allowed to import rice through our ports

you can't import rice into our port since 2015. Go check for your self from custom prohibited items

If u no chop rice u go die ni?


quote author=gaetano post=83133233]

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. [/quote]

naptu2:
Government of Nigeria @NigeriaGov



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I have never supported PMB's leadership approach but this border closure is the best decision he has taken.
If Nigerians want to gain back it respect from committee of Nations and indeed Africa such calculated policies as this are needed. we have this foods been imported obnoxiously, we are just too scared or should I say do not trust our own products. The foreign goods are not better than ours. We need to buy, eat and wear ours.
Nonetheless, this policy will be useless if we there is no concerted effort to tackle inflation of prices by Nigerians.
To this end I think the government should rejig the price monitoring agencies to get on their toes to forestall exploitative tendencies of the market.

Tendency86:


I have never supported PMB's leadership approach but this border closure is the best decision he has taken.
If Nigerians want to gain back it respect from committee of Nations and indeed Africa such calculated policies as this are needed. we have this foods been imported obnoxiously, we are just too scared or should I say do not trust our own products. The foreign goods are not better than ours. We need to buy, eat and wear ours.
Nonetheless, this policy will be useless if we there is no concerted effort to tackle inflation of prices by Nigerians.
To this end I think the government should rejig the price monitoring agencies to get on their toes to forestall exploitative tendencies of the market.

Some people are already re-bagging Nigerian rice as foreign rice in order to make more profit.

Its obvious, Buhari has never been in charge of his government. What are not obvious to me are the reasons he selected some of his ministers and aids.
All over the world, governments chose the best to work for them. And when they do not have the best, they import the best from other countries.
There is a pressure from every government to perfume well and ease the pain of suffering from the citizens, but not the Buhari government.
The government get pass on everything and every scandals. Most often, the government do not need to dish out dish out excuses, The people make excuses for the government thus you rarely see government media aide spokesman. The press has been weakened, and terrorized, killed and buried so right now we rely on foreign media like CNN and BBC to tell us exactly what is going on in our country.
Nigerian see government as a means to enrich themselves individually. Business and trade deals are going on worldwide. It took Nigeria months to caught up with others on Africa trade zone. The reaaon being that our people didn't pay attention or were not aware of what was going on. South Africa and Rwanda was at the fore front.
The rate by which Nigeria is going down, she has crossed the lowest bar to a point of No return.
Right now, Nigeria economy works for the politicians only. They government borrow money to fund their life styles and tax the people to their penury.
We are running a government where the custom boss, can decide, out of his beer parlor discussions to ban on legal or illegal goods from coming in or going out of the country without considering the negative impacts it will have on the economy.
The country now borrows more money than anytime in history. They now also generate less incomes than anytime in history. The less business strategy is closure of borders. But do they really care?
No. They take foreign loans to fund their life styles and their supporters cheer them up and make excuses for them.
Nigerians are already down. Unemployment is high. Businesses are down because of either bad roads or lack of electricity. The middle class some how has been cut off and their is low patronage of services and businesses.

You close the border to encourage farmers from the north, you don't allow rice, vegetable oil, tomatoes etc to come in. That is good for the economy, but why do you still allow palm oil which is majorly produced in the ss/se to be coming into the country from malaysia and ghana through the porous border of niger republic. Are farmers from ss/se too not to be encouraged? Go to kano state and other parts of north you will see imported palm oil from ghana littered everywhere. Pls do the right thing.

Divepen1:
Sweet mouth

The cycle will continue. Those seized goods will from the hands of the elites drip into the hands of the masses.

Then, after a while, they will relent and close the border again when their palms had been greased.
I guess smugglers are no longer paying enough.

Go and help them pay more.

Fragility6:

U no join pple wey vote buhari?

I voted for him and he's doing exactly the right thing. LAND borders closure will not only curb smuggling of rice, cars, cloth but will also curb smuggling of small arms and ammunitions by the terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and militants. It also curbs the smuggling of subsidised petrol out of the country to neighbouring countries. Until Nigeria and her neighbours agreed on the way forward (solution), let it remain closed. If you have something to import, go through seaports and airports and pay the duties and tariffs to Nigerian government instead of growing the neighbouring countries economy at our expense

maasoap:


I voted for him and he's doing exactly the right thing. LAND borders closure will not only curb smuggling of rice, cars, cloth but will also curb smuggling of small arms and ammunitions by the terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and militants. It also curbs the smuggling of subsidised petrol out of the country to neighbouring countries. Until Nigeria and her neighbours agreed on the way forward (solution), let it remain closed. If you have something to import, go through seaports and airports and pay the duties and tariffs to Nigerian government instead of growing the neighbouring countries economy at our expense

Of all the positive business going through borders na smuggling be the only thing u see. Is dere any border in this world dat smuggling doesn't occur? Even with the bad blood between mexico n Trump, none of dem close border. US only became more Strict with dier check-in. Nigeria wit a clueless leader say e own na otherwise. Guy bag of rice 50k for a bag, maize 9k for bag as at 5k for imported, fairy used mobile phones would no longer be cuming thru d border n u know wat happens to the sellers, no job yet diz man is trying to make more pple jobless n broke. No let anybody decieve do ur research, D border-closure has done far more harm dan good. Have u heard Nigeria manufactures ar complaining too?

lovemoi2:
Good development

Its a shame that a country with fertile land and 180M people can not feed themselves

Its even more shame that the youths think farming is shameful

Shameless people

If you dont have money to buy rice and you are hungry plant something at your backyard and eat

Government is trying to forcefully create demand for locally produced items, jobless youth are complaining on social media instead of taking this advantage. I'm tired of them. The only thing they're good at is wailing endlessly. The market for chicken, turkey, rice, tomatoes and other agricultural products is now limitless

Fragility6:

Of all the positive business going through borders na smuggling be the only thing u see. Is dere any border in this world dat smuggling doesn't occur? Even with the bad blood between mexico n Trump, none of dem close border. US only became more Strict with dier check-in. Nigeria wit a clueless leader say e own na otherwise. Guy bag of rice 50k for a bag, maize 9k for bag as at 5k for imported, fairy used mobile phones would no longer be cuming thru d border n u know wat happens to the sellers, no job yet diz man is trying to make more pple jobless n broke. No let anybody decieve do ur research, D border-closure has done far more harm dan good. Have u heard Nigeria manufactures ar complaining too?

Complaining of not being able to get smuggled raw materials any more? That's a good development, they should start getting their raw materials through proper channels by paying the necessary duties and tariffs. We can't continue like that, it helped no one.

maasoap:


Complaining of not being able to get smuggled raw materials any more? That's a good development, they should start getting their raw materials through proper channels by paying the necessary duties and tariffs. We can't continue like that, it helped no one.

The goods passing through normal process in the border has the government come out to give account of it affects our economy? Since buhari entered office we are yet to get any positive. From increasing electricity tariffs to VAT n other ill-advised decisions they've made. How does increasing electricity tariffs solve d light issue? Has ur improved. Hw does closing borders solve smuggling? Remind me again the present nobel laurete winner won the award based on what? Opening its border was one of d plus

Fragility6:

The goods passing through normal process in the border has the government come out to give account of it affects our economy? Since buhari entered office we are yet to get any positive. From increasing electricity tariffs to VAT n other ill-advised decisions they've made. How does increasing electricity tariffs solve d light issue? Has ur improved. Hw does closing borders solve smuggling? Remind me again the present nobel laurete winner won the award based on what? Opening its border was one of d plus

If closure of the borders didn't solve smuggling problems, what is the noise all about then?

maasoap:


If closure of the borders didn't solve smuggling problems, what is the noise all about then?

Are you talking back and forth? Are you not the one claiming it solved smuggling problems? Cant u see the negatives of the border closure. The negatives outweighs the positive by far. I dare you 2 name five positives this border closure has done