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Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by 701adeyemo: 8:52am On Feb 19
Choi! A whole 15 trucks loaded with food.No wonder food items are more expensive by the day.Choi! A whole 15 trucks loaded with food.No wonder food items are more expensive by the day....
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by dalass(f): 9:03am On Feb 19
Dwaizman:
angry I, went out this morning to check a land sold yesterday close to mine. met Hausa woman this morning, she was plugging a grass seeds.. I asked her what will she use it for (I was thinking it was for medicinal purpose). She said they will fry and eat it, she continued that during buhari military regime, dey parent ate the leaf, for Dem it's d seed. shocked. I asked her again, if the seed is exhausted. What will they eat during rainy season? I got imagining how weed(unwanted plant) will not allow to grow again. I thank God that am a northener but a christain one, at least amidst the hate, we are doing well.

Yet, majority of their wealthy northerners will be going to Saudi every year wasting trillions of naira and sponsoring others while poor people are dying of hunger around them. Making forex to be more scarce

Married women will get 1k for sex, small boys will be recruited into banditry and kidnapping .

When they could easily take care of the hungry. God will visit them with correct judgement in Jesus name

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Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by Bamvic93: 9:18am On Feb 19
This is expected to happen cos dey will get more gain when it moves outside d country. I am a farmer here in sokoto. Farm inputs are very expensive and farming is laborious, if dey sell with how depreciated d naira is, no local farmer will farm next season, most farmers over here no longer have d power to farm, as of yesterday one bag of fertilizer was sold at #38000, how many local farmer can afford dat, fueling very expensive. The government should do something fast or else ds will just b d beginning of hardship in Nigeria
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by Successlane: 9:24am On Feb 19
ironheart:
They are just doing business
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by erico2k2(m): 9:27am On Feb 19
MisterGrace:


Source: https://thebureau.com.ng/smuggling-customs-seizes-15-trucks-loaded-with-food-items-in-sokoto/
So farmers can no longer sell their product to next door country??is this not the only way for such farmers to earn forex? or at least sell in whole in one day?We keep shooting ourselves in the leg. Farmers are allowed to sell to the highest bidder.As far as the buyer pays his or her duty they should be let alone.
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by ubev01(m): 9:39am On Feb 19
Smuggling to where? If Niger, thought there's embargo against Niger by ECOWAS
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by andy244: 9:45am On Feb 19
malali:
Share the food to the locals

Give out anonymous phone numbers to people to report food hoarding, food smuggling, naira hoarding, dollars hoarding.Promise rewards, disseminate information in local languages.

Legislate whistleblowers protection act.
All those hidden dollars will cast.
All the smugglers wil cast.
All hoarders will cast.
All money laundering will cast.

Let the citizens know they can contribute against the corruption, it shouldn't be just the authorities.

Do you think all you mentioned above is the problem with the economy? De play. When that slowpoke was busy committing economic suicide you guys were hailing how he built Lagos.
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by Saidfx(m): 9:49am On Feb 19
FarmPlanetNG:
North and hypocrisy. You engage in agricultural projects with the country's finances, then out of sentiments send it to Niger Republic that they are more next of kin than Southern Nigerian, yet you all wanted to die for same religion ticket. The hypocrisy in the north stinks to hell. Since you hate the southerners so badly, please call for referendum so you can go attach to your Niger Republic in peace

Yes we need referendum and a regional government should be the result. It is very obvious that they feel like and claim to be the owners of Nigeria. The Nigerian Army logo has an Arabic inscription in it.. everyone is shouting emilokan, emilokan,...like say nah em be their papa problem..Emilokan will do well and inshallah will force a regional government out of this crazy system. F***ck the 99 constitution and F***ck the northerners.

Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by kayusely70(m): 10:03am On Feb 19
FarmPlanetNG:
North and hypocrisy. You engage in agricultural projects with the country's finances, then out of sentiments send it to Niger Republic that they are more next of kin than Southern Nigerian, yet you all wanted to die for same religion ticket. The hypocrisy in the north stinks to hell. Since you hate the southerners so badly, please call for referendum so you can go attach to your Niger Republic in peace
Youve spoken very well and intelligent too!

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Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by Luu40: 10:13am On Feb 19
Two days ago, I had a conversation with a businessman in my area. He deals in many things; building materials, cement, and other smaller things.
A day before we had the conversation, one of his boys told me he took delivery of a cement-filled trailer from BUA Cement, Sokoto. The boy told me the cement-laden trailer was not offloaded because his boss planned to send it to Niger Republic via the Argungu-Bachaka road. The boss had even sent one of his boys to "gyara hanya" meaning 'to settle all security agencies on the route so that his trailer will just pass and go when it sets out for the journey' . And so it did - the security agencies on all the checkpoints we paid and the trailer made it there. The goods we sold to buyers in Niger Republic.
Back to my conversation with the boss. He told me whenever his goods make it into Niger Republic, he's paid in Franc CFA currency. After his drivers return hone with the CFA, he will send the money via other drivers to Abuja and have it exchanged for US dollars. He didn't tell me what he does with the dollars afterwards.
End of conversation with Alhaji.
Secondly, after the initial removal of subsidy, prices of almost all commodities went up, but stablised. Fast forward, it was in January, 2024 that things went from bad to initial worse around here. People realised that they could export even our most basic items in huge numbers (causing scarcity and rise in demand here, making the items more costly) to Niger Republic as we are not up to 100km away from the border. They are currently making alot of money as their number is always growing.
The evening of the day I had the conversation with Alhaji, an associate of the local chief - Emir of Argungu told us that the emirate council has made moves mo prevent people from uncontrollably exporting our food items to Niger Republic having liased with the security agencies. As this practice have almost made rice and building materials unaffordable to most people. This move by the Emir caused the price of some things to start reducing little by little, and we later learnt that new security agents have been brought in from Abuja and the have prevented all trailers and small vehicles from exporting anything. But the locals around here, though happy with the move, don't trust the security agencies as they believe they will allow them to move midnight.

In my opinion, I think we are making life more difficult for ourselves, though the shape of the economy is also bad. Security agencies are also accomplices in creating these problems. Any truck or trailer that brought food or other essentials to our towns must have paid alot of money to those people manning checkpoints on the roads. And some rich and powerful businessmen have hoarded many goods in their stores, not selling, but waiting for the price to rise as high as possible, kicking many small business owners out of stock of many essentials.
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by Dwaizman(m): 10:58am On Feb 19
malcom1X:


How come christians always think differently. Are they not the same northerners?
Religion is a big issue. Pakistan and India are the same people but due to religion, Pakistan divided and now India which is Hindu is doing well than Pakistan.

There must be something wrong that these guys are doing.

You have a land now and you think properly, don't these people see your progress? Don't they want to be like you?
Why aren't they closer to you to learn from you?
Northern christains, are never hungry. Dey even gotten bar drink eat pepper soup. The other counter stay envying us. Dey demolished, a bar. The head slammers were rejoicing. Dose clubs, bars, hotel are the things generating revenue in the state

Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by FarmPlanetNG: 10:59am On Feb 19
Alamkir:


It's not about hate or anything, it's about money, people are trying to their goods to where there is more gain.


Who is financing the projects ?
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by BigDawsNet: 12:04pm On Feb 19
Some just wicked naturally

Your country people are hungry but u decided to feed other nations
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by pacespot(m): 12:24pm On Feb 19
FarmPlanetNG:
North and hypocrisy. You engage in agricultural projects with the country's finances, then out of sentiments send it to Niger Republic that they are more next of kin than Southern Nigerian, yet you all wanted to die for same religion ticket. The hypocrisy in the north stinks to hell. Since you hate the southerners so badly, please call for referendum so you can go attach to your Niger Republic in peace

The most annoying thing about this is that the people who are producing these foods are from Middle Belt which the North is trying to claim as part of itself. They just use their power in govt to capture these foods from Middle Beltan farmers and send them to their so called cousins in Niger Republic.

The gravest injustice to humanity is forcing Muslims and Christians in the same country and putting Muslims in charge of the government.

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Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by pacespot(m): 12:30pm On Feb 19
Streetdoctor:

For ur information, North never hated South, its only South that hates each other

Especially Yoruba Ronu

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Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by pacespot(m): 12:33pm On Feb 19
But do North realize that the Niger Delta cannot farm like them because of oil exploration in their region which sustains the entire country
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by FarmPlanetNG: 12:54pm On Feb 19
pacespot:


The most annoying thing about this is that the people who are producing these foods are from Middle Belt which the North is trying to claim as part of itself. They just use their power in govt to capture these foods from Middle Beltan farmers and send them to their so called cousins in Niger Republic.

The gravest injustice to humanity is forcing Muslims and Christians in the same country and putting Muslims in charge of the government.



Tryer words have not been spoken. With the educated Southerners going into farming, we give them 3-4 years. They will regret it
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by babajero(m): 1:55pm On Feb 19
MisterGrace:


Source: https://thebureau.com.ng/smuggling-customs-seizes-15-trucks-loaded-with-food-items-in-sokoto/
This is part of the Islamic jihad, they will send terrorists in the tag of herdsmen to destroy farms in the south then send their food to neighboring Islamic countries, it is high time southerners wake and defend themselves. All these things we have as politicians in the south are fulani stooges planted to destabilize the south.
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by lapintoz: 2:03pm On Feb 19
And they are the ones shouting that they are hungry.....farmers growing the food basket are hungry. How come? No be juju be that?

FarmPlanetNG:
North and hypocrisy. You engage in agricultural projects with the country's finances, then out of sentiments send it to Niger Republic that they are more next of kin than Southern Nigerian, yet you all wanted to die for same religion ticket. The hypocrisy in the north stinks to hell. Since you hate the southerners so badly, please call for referendum so you can go attach to your Niger Republic in peace
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by Paraman: 2:17pm On Feb 19
bjayx:
Truck coming in or going out?
going out
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by Dwaizman(m): 8:09pm On Feb 19
dalass:


Yet, majority of their wealthy northerners will be going to Saudi every year wasting trillions of naira and sponsoring others while poor people are dying of hunger around them. Making forex to be more scarce

Married women will get 1k for sex, small boys will be recruited into banditry and kidnapping .

When they could easily take care of the hungry. God will visit them with correct judgement in Jesus name
Amen my dear... Sometimes am tempted to pity Dem, but thier fanatism is something else

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Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by Coolgent(m): 11:07pm On Feb 19
Kunlelee:
What is all this don't transport food stuffs to south rubbish. mehn the card this northerners are playing is very dangerous.
Receive sense...
Our currency has los its value 2.6m is equivalent to just 1m cfa
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by Coolgent(m): 11:09pm On Feb 19
Akfrenzy:


grin taqiyya used in wrong place
Stupidity in display.
Resuscitate your currency first before talking about 4fuckin takarya or tikiya
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by oyatz(m): 11:15pm On Feb 19
FarmPlanetNG:
North and hypocrisy. You engage in agricultural projects with the country's finances, then out of sentiments send it to Niger Republic that they are more next of kin than Southern Nigerian, yet you all wanted to die for same religion ticket. The hypocrisy in the north stinks to hell. Since you hate the southerners so badly, please call for referendum so you can go attach to your Niger Republic in peace

This is NOT about hypocrisy but economics.
These people are taking foods to countries where they can earn higher profits (FOREX).

Because CFA is now way higher than Naira, people will continue to export all materials they can to get higher profits.
Re: Smuggling: Customs Seizes 15 Trucks Loaded With Food Items In Sokoto by FarmPlanetNG: 7:13am On Feb 20
oyatz:


This is NOT about hypocrisy but economics.
These people are taking foods to countries where they can earn higher profits (FOREX).

Because CFA is now way higher than Naira, people will continue to export all materials they can to get higher profits.



Indeed. Who is.financing their projects ?

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