Rice Processors Association of Nigeria

For many years now, foreign or imported rice has been the main menu on many family tables. While this lasted, the local brands were relegated to the background to the extent that some Nigerians saw eating foreign imported rice as a form of…

By Babajide Okeowo The Rice Processors Association of Nigeria, RIPAN has endorsed the partial closure of the Nigeria-Benin border widely called Seme Border by the Presidency saying this move will save the country over $400 million (N144…

Rice Processors Association of Nigeria, RIPAN, has said Nigeria risks the loss of over $400 million to rice smuggling if the over one million metric tonnes of the commodity is allowed to enter the country from Benin Republic..National…

Everywhere you turn, you are greeted with stacks and stacks of bags of rice, from Sango to Daleko, from Igbo-Elerin to Mile-2. However, these bags of rice are smuggled into the country through our porous borders while the Nigeria Customs…