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SEME BORDER
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Area Command, has intercepted five trucks loaded with 2,800 bags of smuggled foreign parboiled rice, with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N919.5 million.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives at Apapa seaport, Lagos, uncovered and seized 31,750,000 pills of 240mg Voltron, a controlled opioid concealed in a container and dismantled cross-border drug networks supplying illegal substances in Nigeria
The Republics of Benin and Niger have failed to meet the conditions for the reopening of Nigeria's land borders.
Of all recent government policies the recent closure of the border with the Republic of Benin to goods is having the most immediate effects on prices.
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that the partial closure of the Nigeria-Benin border was to restrict the massive illegal importation of rice into Nigeria.