Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has sounded a note of warning to Nigerians on their love for Rice consumption, stating that, if we continue like this, it will be a thousand naira to a dollar soon.’ He further stated that the naira could become totally worthless at the international stage if the status quo is maintained.Speaking on Wednesday in Abuja, he complained that the consumption of rice by Nigerians is on the rise and that a lot of people were not aware that rice had some degree of arsenic.Substituting the excess rice with potato would be welcomed development, he added.Nigerian businessmen demanded 2.5 billion dollars (about N492 billion) a week for importation of goods and services into the country.“The volume of importation of virtually everything into this country is too much," he noted.
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