RichDad1:
It should be shut indefinitely.
We’re getting used to it and coping fine.
At least banditry and herdsmen wahala has reduced considerably so far.

shamsin6300:
God bless u Sir.

gaetano:


It's not a good development. We cant close our borders and task neighboring countries to fight smuggling. Our problem is institutional. There is corrupt in our customs, these officials are enabling the smuggling and making huge money from it. Fix the organization and you've fixed the problem. Rice is not the only commodity affected, every business must not suffer because of only rice.

This is what we get when we allow illiterates run the economy.

gaetano:


It's not a good development. We cant close our borders and task neighboring countries to fight smuggling. Our problem is institutional. There is corrupt in our customs, these officials are enabling the smuggling and making huge money from it. Fix the organization and you've fixed the problem. Rice is not the only commodity affected, every business must not suffer because of only rice.

This is what we get when we allow illiterates run the economy.

anonimi:

Who are you in the us

grandstar:
The prime reason why Nigeria imports many types of food is because of the it lacks comparative advantage in them. It's simply cheaper importing than making them ourselves, rice in particular.

gaetano:


It's not a good development. We cant close our borders and task neighboring countries to fight smuggling. Our problem is institutional. There is corruption in our customs, these officials are enabling the smuggling and making huge money from it. Fix the organization and you've fixed the problem. Rice is not the only commodity affected, every business must not suffer because of only rice.

This is what we get when we allow illiterates run the economy.

gaetano:


It's not a good development. We cant close our borders and task neighboring countries to fight smuggling. Our problem is institutional. There is corruption in our customs, these officials are enabling the smuggling and making huge money from it. Fix the organization and you've fixed the problem. Rice is not the only commodity affected, every business must not suffer because of only rice.

This is what we get when we allow illiterates run the economy.

Edu3Again:
They wont open borders till they have killed all Igbo biz.

The borders in the North are open.

while the ones the south are under lock & key while they burn our markets

Obiaksnews:
Rightly said, But i would disagree with you on some of the points you raised. The neighboring countries have a part to play in our fight against smuggling. Without being sentimental, i see reasons with the government on the closure of the Nigerian land borders. for instance goods brought from outside the ECOWAS region are being tempered with by neighboring countries. They collect the import duties from those countries but then bring it to Nigeria making us believe they are from ECOWAS nations, Thereby avoiding to pay import duties to Nigeria. Nigeria has reiterated that goods coming from outside the ECOWAS region should not be tempered with and should be brought straight to Nigeria in the containers they came with, but our neighboring countries do other wise. On the other hand fuel products which are subsided for Nigerians are being smuggled to other African countries and sold for exorbitant prices at the detriment of Nigeria and it's masses, How can you explain the existence of over 150 petrol stations along our border towns, when the people living in border town communities are just a handful ? And talking about border security, no matter how sophisticated our border security is, there would still be loopholes. USA with all it's technology is still battling with the infiltration of migrants and cocaine into it's territory and that's why they are talking about building a wall. The border closure is bigger than the issue of rice smuggling.

gaetano:
we can't keep blaming the neighboring countries. America has a bigger problem with Mexico than we have with Benin, and that's the drug market. America have had that problem for decades and they never close the borders instead they beefed up border patrol and strengthened their borders. The Mexican customs official are working with the cartel and are not ready to fix that problem but America decided to handle it from their end with border closure as commerce must go on. Our problem is institutional. As we chat, traders are working with custom officials in smuggling more rice and having the police escort those cargo to their destination

Obiaksnews:
You really don't know what's happening in the world then, early this year Donald Trump threatened to withhold the aids it offers to Mexico as well as slamming high tariffs and taxes on Mexican products if Mexico doesn't act or find a solution on how to stop the influx of migrants from other south American countries like El Salvador, Venezuela and the rest of them through their country. When Mexico saw that Donald Trump wasn't backing down on his threat they had to take action. For our neighboring countries to take us serious we had to take action also. As sovereign nations the only thing Nigeria can do to make other nations act right is to put up stiff sanctions against them. The border closure may bring about a lot of hardship for the time being, but it will pay off in the long run.

Edu3Again:
They wont open borders till they have killed all Igbo biz.

The borders in the North are open.

while the ones the south are under lock & key while they burn our markets

gaetano:


Again closing the border is not the way. The USA can afford to close the borders but they didn't. Our struggling economy can't afford it because business are suffering. We have better measures.

Obiaksnews:
The USA can not afford to close it's border, The USA makes millions of dollars daily from it's borders unlike Nigeria which doesn't instead it incurs more loses when the borders are open. I understand your sentiment against the government closing down our land borders. But i can assure you, this time Nigeria has made a good decision.

Khaleell001:


Where is your fact?

ABUPHARM:

Who is this one! Enemy of state, is this your last resort? If I may even ask which of the northern borders is open? If your assertion is right, why didn't those dependant countries take their goods across the invincible northern border?

RichDad1:
It should be shut indefinitely.
We’re getting used to it and coping fine.
At least banditry and herdsmen wahala has reduced considerably so far.

gaetano:

What about the cost of clearing goods at our ports,we seem to be overlooking that part. It's cheaper to move your goods from Europe/Asia to apapa than to clear it from apapa to Alaba market. Cost is the main reason people are patronizing ports of neighboring countries. Closing the borders without fixing the cost problem doesn't solve anything as every businessman strives to make profit.

ericsmith:




For once wen something is gud lets acknowledge it is n if that is to hard learn to keep quiet. i agree the closure of border is affecting some other businesses buh there is absolutely no gain without pain.
Rice is the 2nd largest commodities imported into these country & the most consumed commodities of all, the aim of govt @ these time is to creat a market & acceptance ... sum1 like me could neva av settle for local rice, buh today it what i buy n consume. the gain here is most of us won't be going back to foreign rice even if the border open cos we've seen there is little or no differences. more mills to spring up, job i.e more employment & local production that will boost our GDP. thumbsup to d illiterate

Khaleell001:

Where is your fact?

Obiaksnews:
Rightly said, But i would disagree with you on some of the points you raised. The neighboring countries have a part to play in our fight against smuggling. Without being sentimental, i see reasons with the government on the closure of the Nigerian land borders. for instance goods brought from outside the ECOWAS region are being tempered with by neighboring countries. They collect the import duties from those countries but then bring it to Nigeria making us believe they are from ECOWAS nations, Thereby avoiding to pay import duties to Nigeria. Nigeria has reiterated that goods coming from outside the ECOWAS region should not be tempered with and should be brought straight to Nigeria in the containers they came with, but our neighboring countries do other wise. On the other hand fuel products which are subsided for Nigerians are being smuggled to other African countries and sold for exorbitant prices at the detriment of Nigeria and it's masses, How can you explain the existence of over 150 petrol stations along our border towns, when the people living in border town communities are just a handful ? And talking about border security, no matter how sophisticated our border security is, there would still be loopholes. USA with all it's technology is still battling with the infiltration of migrants and cocaine into it's territory and that's why they are talking about building a wall. The border closure is bigger than the issue of rice smuggling.

gaetano:


Again closing the border is not the way. The USA can afford to close the borders but they didn't. Our struggling economy can't afford it because business are suffering. We have better measures.

gaetano:


Again closing the border is not the way. The USA can afford to close the borders but they didn't. Our struggling economy can't afford it because business are suffering. We have better measures.

gaetano:

What about the cost of clearing goods at our ports,we seem to be overlooking that part. It's cheaper to move your goods from Europe/Asia to apapa than to clear it from apapa to Alaba market. Cost is the main reason people are patronizing ports of neighboring countries. Closing the borders without fixing the cost problem doesn't solve anything as every businessman strives to make profit.

gaetano:


It's not a good development. We cant close our borders and task neighboring countries to fight smuggling. Our problem is institutional. There is corruption in our customs, these officials are enabling the smuggling and making huge money from it. Fix the organization and you've fixed the problem. Rice is not the only commodity affected, every business must not suffer because of only rice.

This is what we get when we allow illiterates run the economy.

Fvckmoderators:
but northern borders are open. Who is fooling who?.

Annie001:
Sorry ooo, my question might sound foolish
Does it mean that people cannot travel to Benin too?