The Customs Area Controller for the Sokoto/Zamfara Command, Comptroller Kamal Mohammed, on Tuesday, paid an inspection visit to the Illela Station of the Nigeria-Niger border in...
The Senator representing Osun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, has blamed former President Muhammadu Buhari of crippling the Nigerian economy as...
The war of words between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) regarding the border closure and its implications for Nigerians has taken...
The Buhari Media Oganisation (BMO) claimed on Monday the N1.5trillion purportedly generated by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in 2020 was one of the major achievements...
South-West governors and traditional rulers on Sunday demanded the review of the constitutional conferences, including the 2014 national confab reports. They made the call in a...
The closure of Nigerian borders is doing the country good, given that Nigeria is now on course to achieving self-sufficiency in rice production, Minister of Finance,...
The Zamfara State government has impounded 101 vehicles and prosecuted their drivers for flouting the border closure order declared in the state. The prosecuted transporters were...
A total of 697 illegal migrants have been apprehended while smuggled goods estimated at N7.4 billion have been confiscated seven months after the partial closure of...
President Muhammadu Buhari declared on Tuesday the country has benefitted hugely from the partial closure of its land borders. He said the partial closure of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in London, explained the real reasons the Nigerian government took a decision to close its land borders. He said the partial...
Economic policies instituted by the Nigerian government are fighting back like a cornered fox. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday released its Consumer Price...
Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Friday raided Mubi town market in Adamawa State for foreign rice and other contraband. The raid by the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria’s domestic fuel consumption had dropped by more than 30 per cent, following the closure of land borders. He also...
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, Wednesday disclosed that the closure of the country’s land borders was contributing to rising inflation. Figures from...
The Nigerian Government on Monday said the Republics of Benin and Niger have failed to comply with the conditions attached to the possible reopening of it’s...
The closure of Nigeria’s land borders have been yielding results as the Joint Border Security Drill, known as operation “Swift Response” said it has so far...
The lawmaker representing Igboeze North/Udenu Federal Constituency, Simon Atigwe, has appealed to the Nigerian government to sustain the closure of the nations land borders beyond two...
President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the closure of Nigeria’s land borders till January 31, 2020. The President approved the extension despite groans by Nigerians over the...
Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege has said that members of the National Assembly were in support of the closure of the nation’s border. He said they...
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has said that border closure, if sustained for the next two years, was capable of tackling...
Nigerian Navy on Wednesday raised the alarm that rice smuggling activities had increased despite border closure by the Federal Government. The Commander of NNS Victory of...
The Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) on Wednesday said those who are eating foreign rice in the country are eating expired rice that...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said one of the objectives of the current closure of land borders in the country was to protect and nurture the...
The end to the closure of Nigeria’s land borders may take longer than expected as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele,...
About two months ago, the Nigerian government announced the closure of the country’s land borders to all goods. According to the country’s Comptroller-General of the Customs...
Nigeria recently partially closed its border with Benin in an effort to stem the smuggling of rice. It then went on to close its land borders...
One time secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has called on Nigerians to support the closure of Nigeria’s land borders by the government....
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has pleaded with Nigerians to bear with the President Muhammadu Buhari administration over the closure of the country’s land borders. He said...
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has expressed suspicion over the closure of the Nigeria—Benin border by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Adams who also...
The governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has backed the move by the Federal Government to shut Nigerian borders to check crime. Ortom who gave a...
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, said on Sunday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) backed the Federal Government’s decision to close Nigeria’s borders because it...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday backed the Federal Government’s decision to close Nigeria’s borders with some neighbouring countries over illegal trade. The Comptroller-General of...
A corporate narrative on the Nigerian government’s decision to shut down its borders with illustrations on how this affects every spoon of rice residents in Nigeria...
It is common knowledge that the Federal Government on August 20th, 2019, ordered the closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic, citing massive smuggling activities taking...
Massive job losses may soon take place within industries in Nigeria, due to the continued border closure policy of the Federal Government. Already, some marketers in...
Igbo traders have cried out over the untold hardship and destruction of their businesses occassioned by the closure of the nation’s land borders by the Federal...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, says the party is strongly behind the federal government decision to close Nigeria’s borders with neighbouring...
The Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Hameed Ali, has revealed that the service had been making between N4.7bn and N5.8bn daily as a result of...
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday said the closure of Nigeria’s land borders had been yielding positive results for the economy. Some Nigerians have been lamenting since government...
The ECOWAS Parliament has appealed to the Nigerian government to find a permanent solution to the challenge of smuggling, rather than the continued closure of its...
Nigeria’s land borders are to remain closed until the country is able to agree with its neighbours on existing ECOWAS protocol on movement, the Comptroller General...
Prices of locally processed rice will now sell between N13,300 and N14,000 as the Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RIPAN) Thursday said the association had agreed...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the partial closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic at Seme in Lagos was to check smuggling activities. The closure...
The senator representing Ogun West, Tolu Odebiyi, has appealed to the Federal Government Joint Task Force on smuggling to exercise high sense of responsibility in its...
Human rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has described the temporary closure of the nation’s border by the Federal Government as primitive and a contravention...
