Nigeria: Rice Farmers Hail Shutting of Land Border By Govt

19 June 2018

The Federal Government had said it would shut down land border between Nigeria and a neighbouring country in a few days to avoid smuggling of foreign rice into the country.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this, yesterday, while speaking with youths in a leadership clinic under the auspices of Guardians of the Nation International, GOTNI.

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