•Customs officers with bags of rice In a move to alleviate the hardship Nigerians are facing due to the skyrocketing prices of food, the Nigeria Customs Service, Oyo/Ogun Command, has announced plans to begin another round of distribution of seized rice and other food items to citizens as soon as the federal government finalises the […]...
•Bags of rice The average price of 1kg of local rice sold loose jumped by a whopping 98 per cent in one year, according to data obtained from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The report ‘Selected Food Prices Watch (January 2024)’, said the rise indicated a rise of 98 per cents in price on […]
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) announced yesterday the temporary suspension of the food disposal initiative that commenced last Friday. This decision follows a stampede that occurred, resulting in fatalities and injuries to several potential beneficiaries. In a statement signed yesterday by the NCS National Spokesman, Abdullahi Maiwada, the...
•Governor Dapo Abiodun In a bid to cushion the effect of the rise in the prices of goods in the country, the Ogun State Government has purchased 100 truckloads of rice to be sold at cheaper rates to residents of the state. The state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, stated this yesterday while speaking at a […]
•Bags of rice This is not the best of times for Nigerian families, who have had to adopt bizarre cost-cutting measures to cope with the recent hardship occasioned by the dramatic hike in the prices of goods and services. Several of them lamented that their income could no longer take care of their daily needs, […]
•Pastor Clement Adebisi Pastor Clement Adebisi, the husband of one of the teachers of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, kidnapped in Ekiti State a fortnight ago, shares with Saturday PUNCH the family’s trauma while the episode lasted. Congratulations on your wife’s freedom. How did you feel that Monday on learning of the [&...
•Bandits Bandits who abducted seven residents of Kuduru community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory FCT on December 28 have demanded N290 million ransom, drugs and foodstuffs to release the hostages. The victims, including a pregnant woman, three children and four adults, have now spent one month and four days in captivity...
The price of 1 kilogram (Kg) of rice increased year-on-year, YoY, by 81 percent to N917.93 in December 2023 from N506.17 in the corresponding period of 2022. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, disclosed this yesterday in its Selected Food Price Watch for December 2023. NBS also said the average price of 1kg of Beans […]
•Nigerian Senate The Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Adeyemi Adaramodu has denied media reports that senators received rice worth N200million from President Bola Tinubu for distribution to their constituents as palliatives during the Yuletide. However, a Senate source confirmed the development, saying some of the rice pa...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area Command II, has impounded a bullion van loaded with 12 bags of 50kg smuggled foreign parboiled rice. The van, with registration number, FKJ 993 BZ was impounded alongside the sum of N24,489,500.00 belonging to the Abeokuta branch of Access bank, reports Daily Trust. The Customs Area Controller, Olus...