Noel1:
Does it mean Nigeria has achieved her objective of becoming self sufficient in rice production so soon?

I don't get it...

What was d main objective?
What has Nigeria achieved?
What next?

deepwater:
Below was my post on this thread weeks ago - 11OCT 2019

https://www.nairaland.com/5465156/border-closure-daily-pms-consumption#83037303



truth is that most nigerians are new to the internet and react newly to things that has been happening for ages!
it pains some people when they see the Christians celebrate heavily at yuletide season, one way to stop this is to instill hardship by closing the borders....

as earlier mentioned, argue with your talisman

PHIPEX:
What have we achieved by the closure except suffering for the masses. An unnecessary and irrational decision.

Xisnin:

The border closure has nothing to do with rice smuggling.
The government needed a quick money generating scheme and that was why the border was closed.
Rice was just collateral damage.

Just30:
how far with the increase in food prices in your country ?


your are wasting your time
Ghana is ever progressing

next year poverty figures will increase by 25% in your country

GenBuhari:
If so here is what we can expect to witness in coming days weeks or and months.

Return of PMB's mystery illness and handing power to Osinbajo

Possible premature truncation of Buhari's tenure as president.

Reopening of borders.

Return of proscribed IPOB terrorist leader Nnomby. Rise in hate speech and tribal tensions


Upsurge of Boko Haram / "herdsmen" attacks

Let us pray it is not so, May the gods of our land help us.

Just30:
how far with the increase in food prices in your country ?


your are wasting your time
Ghana is ever progressing

next year poverty figures will increase by 25% in your country

GenBuhari:
If so here is what we can expect to witness in coming days weeks or and months.

Return of PMB's mystery illness and handing power to Osinbajo

Possible premature truncation of Buhari's tenure as president.

Reopening of borders.

Return of proscribed IPOB terrorist leader Nnomby. Rise in hate speech and tribal tensions


Upsurge of Boko Haram / "herdsmen" attacks

Let us pray it is not so, May the gods of our land help us.

grandstar:


The primary reason was rice

Just30:


you sound funny and stupid at the same time


Can you explain why the prices of food is only increasing in your country Nigeria since the border closure
and there are shortages everywhere ?

meanwhile, all the economies in West Africa have not even noticed your border closure ?

grandstar:


how much is a bag of rice in Ghana?I want to compare it with the Nigerian price

I would like to know the price of s bag of cement

grandstar:


As much as I condemn the despicable and counterproductive border close, the action will have a disproportionate effect on Ghana.

Nigeria takes in lots of non traditional exports from Ghana as one of your ministers have said. Many of these products are manufactured goods. Manufacturing is a Labour intensive sector. It may also discourage manufacturers from setting up plants in Ghana.

Ghana vibrant economy would be affected. It will definitely reduce your economic growth rate this year, but not at a devastating level

Noel1:
Does it mean Nigeria has achieved her objective of becoming self sufficient in rice production so soon?

I don't get it...

What was d main objective?
What has Nigeria achieved?
What next?

grandstar:


As much as I condemn the despicable and counterproductive border close, the action will have a disproportionate effect on Ghana.

Nigeria takes in lots of non traditional exports from Ghana as one of your ministers have said. Many of these products are manufactured goods. Manufacturing is a Labour intensive sector. It may also discourage manufacturers from setting up plants in Ghana.

Ghana vibrant economy would be affected. It will definitely reduce your economic growth rate this year, but not at a devastating level

owbabs:


Nigeria is a joke

Just30:
50KG bag of rice is 240 cedis
50KG local rice is 190 cedis

Bag of cement is between 23 and 27 cedis

MUMUdom:
how much exports from Ghana to nigeria are we talking about? is it the $100 million exports from Ghana to nigeria that "will reduce Ghana's economic growth?" I don't get it. $100 million in Ghana's exports represents about 0.0001 percent of Ghana's exports. Is that the one that "will reduce Ghana's economic growth?" very funny, walahi

MUMUdom:
noisy nigerians I guess the Ghanaian government should be considering nationalizing all nigerian interests in Ghana. take over their struggling banks and inept glo shit that is when they will learn sense. they dont want ghanaian exports, we too we dont want nigerian companies in GHANA. Nothing spoil na . nigerians companies are making profits to feed people back in nigeria and yet these ingrates are talking crass trash.

the south africa treatment is what these mudder fuggerz need in Ghana

Area4Area:


https://tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/exports/ghana

https://tradingeconomics.com/ghana/exports/nigeria

You can see that our exports to Ghana is more of semifinished and finished products while that of Ghana to Nigeria is mostly primary goods.

We export more to Ghana and are supposed to be crying more but surprisingly Ghana has been crying and begging for Africa.

We have alternative sources for our imports from Ghana because we produce it too but Ghana would need to import from other countries because they can't produce them...underdeveloped economy.

awoluyi:
Almost all the comments concerning borders closure focus attention on rice and nothing else. Should everything be about stomach?
I remember Fela's record, "Jęun koku."
Intelligent and thinking people would have looked at the positive sides of this policy if there are any and at the same time highlight temporary hardships the policy may impose on the citizens.
It is unfortunate that some people are
checking their blood pressure on 3rd November because of what they will eat on Christmas day (25th December ).
Haha!

id911:
You close borders but you continue to pay customs their salaries and the CG Of Customs, whose duty is to check smuggling along the borders, has not been sack. Why not disband the Nigeria Customs Service since they have failed in their duties to police the borders and close the borders indefinitely? Using archaic method to solve contemporary problems can't solve anything but will rather aggravate it.
Very useless Government

Ken4Christ:
By then, his aboki brothers should have made enough money doing rice farm. Why do we think Buhari has no rice farm also?

Area4Area:
I thought that the news about Buhari giving you a January 31st deadline should've cooled you down, we've told you already to shut your borders to Nigerian goods, close down our shops with your GUTTER.
Start the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and we'd teach you guys more lesson.
Hope your beggarly ministers are off to Accra to return in January to start another round of begging.

7lives:


Did anyone stop you from owning a rice farm?..
Did the government place a ban on rice importation, bring your rice through the ports and pay the duties.
Buhari is even too Nice closing the border against smugglers, i will order a shoot at sight on them if I have such power.
A country that cannot feed itself cannot grow, farming is the only available option to people who have no skill or education, you want farmers to produce and and end up selling at loss?.
The foreign rice that you prefer, the people who produced them are not related to you are they?.
Eat Nigerian rice, produce your own rice too, we go buy and chop am.

Ken4Christ:


You are as dull as your leaders. If he is really interested in you, he should also ensure that the price of local rice is regulated. People are already facing untold hardship and you are making them pay more for a poor quality rice.

He should also ban importation of refined fuel which is what is actually consuming the bulk of our foreign exchange.

He should also ban importation of keke na pep which is making India rich and Nigeria poorer by loss of foreign exchange.

He should also ban products like cooking stove and many other things that can be produced locally.

This government I repeat those not have your interest at heart. A president whose daily budget for refreshment alone aside foodstuffs is N68,000 will never feel the pains of the people. Yet people are starving in our IDP camps.

His budget for transport for 2020 is 750 million for local traveling and 1.75 billion for international traveling. And minimum wage of 30k is difficult to implement.

If this was Facebook, I would have blocked you. I can't stand people who can't reason rationally.

7lives:


Eat local rice and stop all these stories, if government cannot pay 30k minimum wage people can get jobs in the private establishments.
But when private establishments are not allowed to flourish by smugglers, na to dey cry for 30k sure pass.
While people who hawk drinks around here saves 2k daily, idle capacities in government office are crying for 30k, radarada, your life is what you make it.