Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed has announced that President Buhari ordered the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS to release for immediate distribution 150 trucks of rice that were seized from smugglers during border closure.
The directive, she disclosed during a media briefing in Abuja on Monday morning, is part of the palliative measures by the Federal government to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
The President has approved grains from the Stategic Grains Reserves. The Nigeria Customs Service has in its custody a lot of rice that has been seized and there is one hundred and fifty trucks of rice that is now been handed over to the humanitarian ministry for distribution to the states across the country” she said
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