We shut Benin border over rice smuggling, says Buhari

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Massive smuggling of rice across the western border is responsible for its partial closure, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday.

The closure is also to allow Nigeria’s security forces develop a strategy on how to halt the dangerous trend with its negative impact on the government’s economic programme.

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