myboy2111:

Contrabands?

Thats y NCS is stationed at d border

Confuse Man, why not close the Northern borders, Nigeria is not sufficient in rice production. [ bquote author=doris00 post=81698171]President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the partial closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic to the massive smuggling activities especially of rice, taking place on that corridor.

The Nigerian leader gave the reason during an audience granted his Beninois counterpart, Patrice Talon, on the margins of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD7), in Yokohama, Japan on Wednesday.

Buhari, who expressed great concern over the smuggling of rice, said it threatened the self-sufficiency already attained due to his administration’s agricultural policies.

According to him, “Now that our people in the rural areas are going back to their farms, and the country has saved huge sums of money which would otherwise have been expended on importing rice using our scarce foreign reserves, we cannot allow smuggling of the product at such alarming proportions to continue.”

The Nigerian President said the limited closure of the country’s western border was to allow Nigeria’s security forces to develop a strategy on how to stem the dangerous trend and its wider ramifications.

Responding to the concerns raised by President Talon on the magnitude of suffering caused by the closure, Buhari said he had taken note and would reconsider reopening it in the not too distant future.

He, however, disclosed that a meeting with his counterparts from Benin and Niger Republics would soon be called to determine strict and comprehensive measures to curtail the level of smuggling across their borders.

Earlier, President Talon had said he called on the Nigerian President as a result of the severe impact which the closure of the Nigerian border was having on his people.

Buhari also received in audience, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa during which issues of common bilateral relations especially the killings of Nigerians in South Africa, were discussed. The matter will be further examined during the Nigerian leader’s official visit to Pretoria in October 2019.



See more here https://thickmatch.com/buhari-gives-reasons-closure-nigerias-border-benin-republic/[/quote]

Enice:
these children of hate are really something else. they want to eat their cake and have it back. it's not possible. how can you Have a better economy without taking advantage of areas that you have strength. you have to start from somewhere. as the saying goes, no pain no gain. an example was the GSM revolution. sim cards started at a price of about N35000, but today, they are sold for N200. when the multiplier effects of Nigerian rice sets in, price will fall. but it takes time

Do you also realise the closure means we cannot export to West Africa?

Enice:
these children of hate are really something else. they want to eat their cake and have it back. it's not possible. how can you Have a better economy without taking advantage of areas that you have strength. you have to start from somewhere. as the saying goes, no pain no gain. an example was the GSM revolution. sim cards started at a price of about N35000, but today, they are sold for N200. when the multiplier effects of Nigerian rice sets in, price will fall. but it takes time

Was it by closing d border that sim card dropped from 35k to 200naira? Is it only rice that passes thru d border? What is d work of NCS that an entire international border has to b closed?

myboy2111:

Contrabands?

Are exports from Nigeria also countraband or you think border is one way traffic?

When will FG close Nigeria's border with chad and niger republic?

Different strokes for different regions. I wonder who advises Buhari. The highest smuggling of Rice occurs up north, those that knows know. I am in no way supporting smuggling, but if the border with Benin is closed then they also need to close the porous borders up north where most of the smuggling occurs. When this is not the case, it becomes obvious that there is an agenda.

itsme01:



lets eat what we grow and use our own ports

Lamenting fools should go to Ghana and see thier laws, you can't ship in nonesense into their country

Igbo people's shops are being closed by ghanians because their Government made laws forbiding foreigners from owning small businesses that would compete with locals, so businesses less than $200k isnt allowed

We need such to grow rather than continue borrowing for luxury

...

Does buhari and his family patronise Nigerian schools& hospitals?

pan3:
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OTayobami:
Akuko! Why not close the border that imports ammunitions secretly to the country

you are contradicting yourself in this statement.. Its not possible to know the border that are used to import ammunitions secretly because its a secret.

livinbygrace:



You never see anything yet .No hope for common man again and All of you supporting this evil man will surely regret it.Nigerians are starving,hunger is ravaging the land and you senseless people are still supporting this hardship of a man called Buhari.May God punish all of you

U are the one who has no hope. Smuggling is a criminal activity and it should stop for demostic production.Nigerian youths are to foolish to understand the economic implications of smuggling.

THE BORDERS SHOULD ALSO BE CLOSED TO MEDICAL TRIPS BY GOVT. OFFICIAL, FROM THE PRESIDENT DOWN TO THE CLEANER.

Why not give Nigerians notice before taking such decision? Mr President needs knock on his head for that unaware move. It has affected so many people including travellers plying that route

femu:


Do you also realise the closure means we cannot export to West Africa?

What do you export?

lexy2014:


Does buhari and his family patronise Nigerian schools& hospitals?

I don't give a fvck what buhari consume, heck i don't care what obasanjo or jonathan likes, but i'll tell you my concern i fvcking want us to atleast 180m nigerians to consume and use nigerian products so that factories wont close down.due to lack of patronage.due to foreign.alternatives, i care about my self being able to sell of my farm produce if i take a loan to boost my farm and not go into loss because some dunce wants agric produce from south african xenophobic shoprite farmers

So better start seeing the economy as your own and not buhari's except you don't have anything you sell or produce or you work with an International company that is imune from local economy or your.Family has a Military Headofstate whose pensions is in the millions

The country has never been self sufficient in rice production. Over a million tons of rice is smuggled from Benin Republic into the country yearly.

Why this quest to become self reliant in rice production? Nigeria has never had a problem with rice production. The problem it has is the ability to produce it at a competitive price as the country lacks comparative advantage in it.

Let's take a deep look at it. A Beninoise boy told me a bag of rice in Benin is 12,000 when it's 18,000 here.

For the government to compel Nigerians to produce rice, it puts up a protectionist wall that makes the imported rice cost as much as 18,000 or more. Now that the imported version is dearer than the local version, local demand for locally made rice increases and that encourages production.

My argument has always been how can paying 18,000 for a product that should 12,000 help the poor ? What's the being self sufficient in expensive rice help the indigent?

We are practically sustaining Benin republic.
So because we closed border, they are suffering.?

I like their ladies though. Very simple.

grandstar:
The country has never been self sufficient in rice production. Over a million tons of rice is smuggled from Benin Republic into the country yearly.

Why this quest to become self reliant in rice production? Nigeria has never had a problem with rice production. The problem it has is the ability to produce it at a competitive price as the country lacks comparative advantage in it.

Let's take a deep look at it. A Beninoise boy told me a bag of rice in Benin is 12,000 when it's 18,000 here.

For the government to compel Nigerians to produce rice, it puts up a protectionist wall that makes the imported rice cost as much as 18,000 or more. Now that the imported version is dearer than the local version, local demand for locally made rice increases and that encourages production.

My argument is that how can paying 18,000 for rice that is 12,000 help the poor? What's the point in being self sufficient in expensive rice help the indigent?

Don't forget that the people farming are not necessarily the rich.
Besides, Nigeria can produce rice to the point where price would drop.
But the price has to be competitive first to attract significant players before it drops due to excess production.

It is just like petrol.

madridguy:
Baba Buhari am not with you on this. Close the borders close to insurgency, terrorism and not our rice border.

Baba do come back and open our rice border. Christmas is around the corner.

Close which border....so na you go stop boko haram from passing ni..?

itsme01:


I don't give a fvck what buhari consume, heck i don't care what obasanjo or jonathan likes, but i'll tell you my concern i fvcking want us to atleast 180m nigerians to consume and use nigerian products so that factories wont close down.due to lack of patronage.due to foreign.alternatives, i care about my self being able to sell of my farm produce if i take a loan to boost my farm and not go into loss because some dunce wants agric produce from south african xenophobic shoprite farmers

So better start seeing the economy as your own and not buhari's except you don't have anything you sell or produce or you work with an International company that is imune from local economy or your.Family has a Military Headofstate whose pensions is in the millions

Who told u that Nigerians don't patronise made in Nigeria products? Is it ghosts that patronise them?

itsme01:

i fvcking want us to atleast 180m nigerians to consume

U say it as if u can decide 4 Nigerians what they should consume. If ur farm products aren't selling, then don't blame ur fellow Nigerians. Take ur blame somewhere else. Buhari is d head of govt& if he wants to implement an indigenization policy, he should lead by example. U are bothered about ur farm. Its d same way many who have sick loved ones are bothered about where they will access quality medical care which is non existent in public hospitals. D way u are bothered about ur farm is d same way many are bothered how their children will get quality education in Nigeria which is non existent in public schools. If d man who is president can't patronise made in Nigeria hospitals or schools, then what moral authority does he have to close d border because people eat foreign rice?

TSRC:

Don't forget that the people farming are not necessarily the rich.
Besides, Nigeria can produce rice to the point where price would drop.
But the price has to be competitive first to attract significant players before it drops due to excess production.

It is just like petrol.

Nigeria has no comparative advantage in rice production. Only 3 countries have this advantage and they are Thailand, Vietnam and India as they have the large amounts of the best land suited for rice production.

All other countries to some degree should import some of their stuff.

It is not about increasing production until the price will drop. That has been the argument about other prodcts the country banned.

The country should focus on what it has comparative advantage in. Shea butter has been reckoned to have the ability to earn the country as much as $2bn yearly. The forex from there alone will take care of rice imports. There's cashew, cocoa and many other products that Nigeria excels in. I'm sure if kolanuts were well exploited, it can yield as much as $2bn yearly as well

Country's do best when they focus on things they have comparative advantage in. Pouring resources into areas you suck at does very little for you.

doris00:
President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the partial closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic to the massive smuggling activities especially of rice, taking place on that corridor.

The Nigerian leader gave the reason during an audience granted his Beninois counterpart, Patrice Talon, on the margins of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD7), in Yokohama, Japan on Wednesday.

Buhari, who expressed great concern over the smuggling of rice, said it threatened the self-sufficiency already attained due to his administration’s agricultural policies.

According to him, “Now that our people in the rural areas are going back to their farms, and the country has saved huge sums of money which would otherwise have been expended on importing rice using our scarce foreign reserves, we cannot allow smuggling of the product at such alarming proportions to continue.”

The Nigerian President said the limited closure of the country’s western border was to allow Nigeria’s security forces to develop a strategy on how to stem the dangerous trend and its wider ramifications.

Responding to the concerns raised by President Talon on the magnitude of suffering caused by the closure, Buhari said he had taken note and would reconsider reopening it in the not too distant future.

He, however, disclosed that a meeting with his counterparts from Benin and Niger Republics would soon be called to determine strict and comprehensive measures to curtail the level of smuggling across their borders.

Earlier, President Talon had said he called on the Nigerian President as a result of the severe impact which the closure of the Nigerian border was having on his people.

Buhari also received in audience, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa during which issues of common bilateral relations especially the killings of Nigerians in South Africa, were discussed. The matter will be further examined during the Nigerian leader’s official visit to Pretoria in October 2019.



See more here https://thickmatch.com/buhari-gives-reasons-closure-nigerias-border-benin-republic/

close the border with Niger, idiot

DonBenny77:
And now traders have goods stuck in transit over a week now, what a clueless decision!

Are the traders Fulani?

lexy2014:


Who told u that Nigerians don't patronise made in Nigeria products? Is it ghosts that patronise them?


U say it as if u can decide 4 Nigerians what they should consume. If ur farm products aren't selling, then don't blame ur fellow Nigerians. Take ur blame somewhere else. Buhari is d head of govt& if he wants to implement an indigenization policy, he should lead by example. U are bothered about ur farm. Its d same way many who have sick loved ones are bothered about where they will access quality medical care which is non existent in public hospitals. D way u are bothered about ur farm is d same way many are bothered how their children will get quality education in Nigeria which is non existent in public schools. If d man who is president can't patronise made in Nigeria hospitals or schools, then what moral authority does he have to close d border because people eat foreign rice?

Some of those guys are thick-skin hypocrites. They sound as though they care about Nigeria, but deep within their allegiance is only to one man, Buhari, and not to the country Nigeria. So even when he makes stupid policies they still find a way to support him. One of the biggest routes for rice smuggling is Nigeria-Niger border but as usual baba acts like it doesn't exist.

lexy2014:


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Who told u that Nigerians don't patronise made in Nigeria products? Is it ghosts that patronise them?


U say it as if u can decide 4 Nigerians what they should consume. If ur farm products aren't selling, then don't blame ur fellow Nigerians. Take ur blame somewhere else. Buhari is d head of govt& if he wants to implement an indigenization policy, he should lead by example. U are bothered about ur farm. Its d same way many who have sick loved ones are bothered about where they will access quality medical care which is non existent in public hospitals. D way u are bothered about ur farm is d same way many are bothered how their children will get quality education in Nigeria which is non existent in public schools. If d man who is president can't patronise made in Nigeria hospitals or schools, then what moral authority does he have to close d border because people eat foreign rice?
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No point arguing with someone blabing incoherent jargons, buhari has closed the land borders.to benin, if it makes you sad and you want your foreign trash find your own forex (cos cbn aint giving any dunce anything for junks) and use the seaport and pay the custom duty.on it all this long wailing isn't changing a damn thing,

And if you truly care about your sick ones, and education then you wont want to.eat your future buy foods abroad with crude oil forex




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grandstar:


Nigeria has no comparative advantage in rice production. Only 3 countries have this advantage and they are Thailand, Vietnam and India as they have the large amounts of the best land suited for rice production.

All other countries to some degree should import some of their stuff.

It is not about increasing production until the price will drop. That has been the argument about other prodcts the country banned.

The country should focus on what it has comparative advantage in. Shea butter has been reckoned to have the ability to earn the country as much as $2bn yearly. The forex from there alone will take care of rice imports. There's cashew, cocoa and many other products that Nigeria excels in. I'm sure if kolanuts were well exploited, it can yield as much as $2bn yearly as well

Country's do best when they focus on things they have comparative advantage in. Pouring resources into areas you suck at does very little for you.

I wish I can like this post a million times.

grandstar:


Nigeria has no comparative advantage in rice production. Only 3 countries have this advantage and they are Thailand, Vietnam and India as they have the large amounts of the best land suited for rice production.

All other countries to some degree should import some of their stuff.

It is not about increasing production until the price will drop. That has been the argument about other prodcts the country banned.

The country should focus on what it has comparative advantage in. Shea butter has been reckoned to have the ability to earn the country as much as $2bn yearly. The forex from there alone will take care of rice imports. There's cashew, cocoa and many other products that Nigeria excels in. I'm sure if kolanuts were well exploited, it can yield as much as $2bn yearly as well

Country's do best when they focus on things they have comparative advantage in. Pouring resources into areas you suck at does very little for you.

Excellent post. D economics behind all this is not rocket science but this is a well thought comment that puts everything in perspective. Unfortunately, buhari is taking Nigeria on wild goose chase with his abracadabra rice policy

itsme01:



lets eat what we grow and use our own ports

Lamenting fools should go to Ghana and see thier laws, you can't ship in nonesense into their country

Igbo people's shops are being closed by ghanians because their Government made laws forbiding foreigners from owning small businesses that would compete with locals, so businesses less than $200k isnt allowed

We need such to grow rather than continue borrowing for luxury

...

December is around the Conner, the Northerners will import food through Niger Republic and Chad Border and sell to people in Southern Nigeria



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GGC5R-IsE4

helinues:
FG should have explained all this to the public. Imagine how many people caught unaware of the closure of the border.

Such decisions should never be communicated before they are taken.

It should be done suddenly, then explain the rationale later otherwise it will not have the desired result.

itsme01:



No point arguing with someone blabing incoherent jargons, buhari has closed the land borders.to benin, if it makes you sad and you want your foreign trash find your own forex (cos cbn aint giving any dunce anything for junks) and use the seaport and pay the custom duty.on it all this long wailing isn't changing a damn thing,





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U haven't been able to counter anything I have said with proper argument. Ur copious use of foul language still takes u far far away from any meaningful argument. No wonder u aren't able to sell ur rice.

Ist, d VP before d presidential elections claimed that rice imports have dropped because Nigeria now self sufficient in rice production as we now produce over 90% of our rice locally.By closing d border because of rice, clearly shows that d VP lied about d state of rice production.

Second, if d border is being closed because of rice, it means that Nigerians have been importing (not smuggling) rice, a banned product, thru d border in d last 4years. D question is, how was rice passing thru d border with NCS manning d border? Also, d implication of closing d border is that Nigeria can't export anything 2d west African coast by land except u think d border is only meant for rice. Penny wise, pound foolish.

Third, u talk about forex from CBN. Is CBN d only source of forex in Nigeria?

Lastly, what is d volume of local rice production in relation to local demand that makes u think that once d border is closed, then local rice will b available for every Nigerian?

Pls read this intellectual post below from a like mind:

grandstar:


Nigeria has no comparative advantage in rice production. Only 3 countries have this advantage and they are Thailand, Vietnam and India as they have the large amounts of the best land suited for rice production.

All other countries to some degree should import some of their stuff.

It is not about increasing production until the price will drop. That has been the argument about other prodcts the country banned.

The country should focus on what it has comparative advantage in. Shea butter has been reckoned to have the ability to earn the country as much as $2bn yearly. The forex from there alone will take care of rice imports. There's cashew, cocoa and many other products that Nigeria excels in. I'm sure if kolanuts were well exploited, it can yield as much as $2bn yearly as well

Country's do best when they focus on things they have comparative advantage in. Pouring resources into areas you suck at does very little for you.

Pls, which forex did buhari use to send his children abroad for schooling? Which forex did buhari use to obtain medical treatment for himself & his family? Or is it naira he spends in d uk?

So this is the reason why you close the border.
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