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The Nigeria Customs Service has seized a total of 206,838 bags of rice valued at N2 billion in the last one year, data of seizures obtained by Daily Trust has shown. Daily Trust had reported how renewed rice smuggling through the country’s borders is currently threatening the federal government’s efforts towards local production. Analysis of data by Daily Trust show that the seizures were done between May 2022 to April 2023 with the highest number of seizure coming in September 2022 as the Service seized 96,312 bags of rice.