Planned Border Shutdown In Nigeria Is About the Rice

A clampdown on rice smugglers will see Nigeria close its land borders in the next few days. It shares borders with Niger, Chad, Benin and Cameroon and authorities, without mentioning which country, says that their local rice production is suffering as a result of the unnamed country's actions of smuggling rice into Nigeria.

 

Rice smuggling.

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