The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there have been scarcity of foreign rice in Abuja, weeks after the reopening of borders by the Federal Government.
NAN reports that many traders in some markets in Abuja today, Saturday March 13, were out of stock of foreign rice in their shops and warehouses. Hajiya Rahmatu Mohammed, a rice seller in Utako Market in Abuja, said in view of the scarcity, the price of foreign rice had increased in the market. “In January and February, we have the foreign rice available all over the place in this market, that time we were buying N25,00 and selling at N26,000 but in the last two weeks, it has gone up to N27,000 and N28,000, yet we are not seeing it, she said. She said the Nigerian rice was still cheaper as it was now sold between N21,000 and N23, 000. Rice dealers in Gwagwalada and other locations also affirmed the scarcity of foreign rice in markets. Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Customs Service, Mr Joseph Attah, while reacting to the development said the scarcity of foreign rice in the market was a sign of the success of the service’s anti- smuggling operation, in order to promote locally produced rice and other agricultural products in the country.
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