8BitGee:


Our rice farmers will never get off the ground if we don't discourage importation. We have to make some sacrifices!

Nigerians must learn to lose the taste for foreign goods. Let's buy our own to uplift our country economy.

must learn to lose the taste for foreign goods,
Nawao guy that's cruel and wicked.......

Tallesty1:
They will soon send the rice to one IDP camp like that

It will never reach the IDPS. They will divert and sell them

Like seriously if it were your son's containers, would you have seized them I sight stuupidity.

The mood of IDPs children just changed. God don answer their prayer.

8BitGee:


Our rice farmers will never get off the ground if we don't discourage importation. We have to make some sacrifices!

Nigerians must learn to lose the taste for foreign goods. Let's buy our own to uplift our country economy.

How much for a Tin of peak milk? Nigerian producing are killing us with prices so competition between local manufacturers and importation of food commodities is good for any nation. I repeat food commodities only

I no fit talk abeg. helep me punch like as 2day na my birthday. PLEASE PLEASE and PLEASE.

nike4love:


must learn to lose the taste for foreign goods,
Nawao guy that's cruel and wicked.......

You may not understand, but I'll tell you anyway. Nigeria/Nigerian importers spend over $2.4bn importing rice. Imagine what $2.4bn will do to our economy, to the economies of Kebbi, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Anambra and other rice states. Think!

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/187406-nigeria-spends-2-4bn-on-rice-importation-in-3-years-emefiele.html

NairaMaster1:

It will never reach the IDPS. They will divert and sell them

When IDP children read your comment.

Na thunder wey day do presup na him go fire those custom cant they aware of rice price

Please where did they keep it? Can we get a physical address?

GODKID98:
40k bags of rice??...d owner dan suffer!!!!

D govt z wicked xha!!,d levy 2 mch na!!.....

Btw,let xumbody who knows sumwan dat knws sumbody in d high places tell them to release d bags of rice into d Nigerian market!!!....Mk dem nr go put am 4 dia warehouse!!,na beg we dy beg!!


E dey pain me 4 d owner xha!!

you dont know anything. You think the owner will sell it cheap for u ?

8BitGee:


Our rice farmers will never get off the ground if we don't discourage importation. We have to make some sacrifices!

Nigerians must learn to lose the taste for foreign goods. Let's buy our own to uplift our country economy.

sacrifices? We are talking about food here,not luxuries

useless government useless people, why are they impounding it , do we have it in abundant here... a cup of rice is sold 150 naira in my area... where is made in Nigeria rice I can't even see it in market, why are they making it more harder on us... bughari is stupid. Aisha Halliburton has brainwash her... everything about this government stink... wailers are weeping Zombies are crying... high time we stop voting under ethnic lines... bughari is not a technocrats, he lack the zeal to push Nigeria forward, don't expect an illiterate without formal education to act as an economist or Harvard graduate, bughari is fantastically stupid... there is hungry in Nigeria, Zombies are getting wiser, the only way for them to return to power unopposed is silencing the opposition, bughari you will wake up one day and see Nigeria in flame, yellow-bars contributed to our woes, out of ignorance and wickedness they choose darkness against light, they are the cause of our current predicament.. may God forgive them and accept them back as they are willingly, gradually returning to the right path... May God give few unrepentant Zombies sense to think outside the box and Vote wisely Amen

8BitGee:


Our rice farmers will never get off the ground if we don't discourage importation. We have to make some sacrifices!

Nigerians must learn to lose the taste for foreign goods. Let's buy our own to uplift our country economy.

Are the said Nigeria Goods made available for purchase ?, jst some days back i asked my mom to look for local rice but she couldnt find any but everyday we read on Nl hw Kastina or anambra or Kogi re producing rice, now my question is Where re the rice ?, should we starve to death ?

This Government is clueless

8BitGee:


You may not understand, but I'll tell you anyway. Nigeria/Nigerian importers spend over $2.4bn importing rice. Imagine what $2.4bn will do to our economy, to the economies of Kebbi, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Anambra and other rice states. Think!

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/187406-nigeria-spends-2-4bn-on-rice-importation-in-3-years-emefiele.html

do we have rice sufficient in Nigeria or are we going to keep buying it 25k for 50kg... competitive market is good to any downtrodden economy like ours... don't tell me if u have cheaper sources you will still going to patronised made in Nigeria rice... abeg let's reasons like human being instead of aliens

PEPPERified:
Please not now, not with the price of rice now

I weep for this country! so the status qou should be maintain? how bout the crime been committed here? yiu didn't see anything wrong with that and yiu want mr president to do a 'merling'
chai chai....
i refuse to give up yet, Nigeria will be great again!!!

More food for the IDPs
We need more seizure like that to feed our homeless and needy

PEPPERified:
Please not now, not with the price of rice now

I weep for this country! so the status-quo should be maintained? how bout the crime been committed here? you didn't see anything wrong with that and you want Mr president to do a 'merling'
chai chai....
i refuse to give up yet, Nigeria will be great again!!!

luvinhubby:


And you ban what you cannot produce a quarter (1/4) of your local need.

oga read the post very well pls. nothing like ban is in it. the man was just evading payment of govt dues which is criminal. if he had succeeded, the same man will make consumers pay through their noses and make huge profit not minding he landed the rice cheaply. this the bane of this country. no body wants to be honest but we still want the best. greed is killing us all

Customs y na...it's not as if the rice is poison na.The man can fit die oh...

rice don cost ooo

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lordkhalifa:
useless government useless people, why are they impounding it , do we have it in abundant here... a cup of rice is sold 150 naira in my area... where is made in Nigeria rice I can't even see it in market, why are they making it more harder on us... bughari is stupid. Aisha Halliburton has brainwash her... everything about this government stink... wailers are weeping Zombies are crying... high time we stop voting under ethnic lines... bughari is not a technocrats, he lack the zeal to push Nigeria forward, don't expect an illiterate without formal education to act as an economist or Harvard graduate, bughari is fantastically stupid... there is hungry in Nigeria, Zombies are getting wiser, the only way for them to return to power unopposed is silencing the opposition, bughari you will wake up one day and see Nigeria in flame, yellow-bars contributed to our woes, out of ignorance and wickedness they choose darkness against light, they are the cause of our current predicament.. may God forgive them and accept them back as they are willingly, gradually returning to the right path... May God give few unrepentant Zombies sense to think outside the box and Vote wisely Amen

easy bro, the man committed a criminal offence of evading govt levy. no body is punishing him for importing rice here. he should have paid the right levies and taken his rice. mind you had he got away with it, he would not have sold to you at a cheaper price but extort the last kobo from your pocket.

8BitGee:


Our rice farmers will never get off the ground if we don't discourage importation. We have to make some sacrifices!

Nigerians must learn to lose the taste for foreign goods. Let's buy our own to uplift our country economy.

where there is no competion the quality suffer. Lets our onw be better the rest will be history.

then after impounding the rice...who eats them...presidency?..

osahonmk:
Nice one..... Let's encourage our local farmers and create more employment for the youths through farming..... I will rather buy a bag of rice for 20k knowing the money is going into my fellow Nigerian pocket Dan 12k going to d already rich Chinese guys

so, u think the importers ar nt creating jobs?

gigtom:
I know most people will complain about this. But we should try to encourage our local rice farmers by patronizing our very own. I could remember our very own twitter senator (Sen Bruce) saying buy naija grow the naira

did u think monopoly can help?

I suspect that the owner of this containers of rice is Mr. Patrick Nwaokike from anamvra state, CEO Letspartnerwithyoultd.

The painful thing here is that these uniformed criminals in customs- Hamid Ali and Co will sell these impounded Rice to their hausa/fulani friends close to the actual value and then pocket the millions of naira for themselves. Not a kobo will enter FG purse. Is this not INSTITUTIONALIZED THIEVERY?

Mrjo:
where there is no competion the quality suffer. Lets our onw be better the rest will be history.

We have not gotten there yet. You just wait. What we need now is to make policies to help them grow and build capacity. Give them soft loans by buying up at least a year production in advance.

People want to be assured there'd be a return on their investments. That's what government is doing presently. This is not just going to benefit rice farmers, more people will actually go into agriculture now that we have given them support.

The same thing is what we want for Innoson. The states and airforce are gradually moving towards him. His is difficult because some vehicle manufacturers have been smart by establishing assembly plants here. Further, not many people buy or can afford new cars in Nigeria. But he'll get there.

How much have you invested in agriculture?

osahonmk:
Nice one..... Let's encourage our local farmers and create more employment for the youths through farming..... I will rather buy a bag of rice for 20k knowing the money is going into my fellow Nigerian pocket Dan 12k going to d already rich Chinese guys

destruction11:
you dont know anything. You think the owner will sell it cheap for u ?

I Was talking abt d govt nt d owners

MrCounselor:
Crazy!!!
When nothing is working in Nigeria and nobody is manufacturing barely
half of the staple food we need internally and you still keep about banning
the few ones that get in.
What are they going to do with it ? Destroy? [size=15pt]Nah![/size]
[size=18pt]Steal it[/size]
Buhari is the main loser here


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Not sure you read the news before commenting, According to the write ups the FG did not ban the importation of rice but the importer indicated in his/her papers that it's yeast and not rice. My question is why will someone import rice and claim it to be yeast? it's the same way they will import guns and claim it's something else.