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Nigeria’s efforts to reduce food prices has received another major boost as Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, unveiled a multi-billion naira rice production initiative in Niger state. This is coming days after fellow billionaire Abdul Samad Rabiu vowed to continue crashing rice prices across the country.

Speaking at the opening of the 2025 Niger National Trade Fair in Minna, Fatima Abdurrahman, senior special adviser to the president of Dangote Group, said the conglomerate is developing a 32-metric-tonnes-per-hour rice mill on a 30-hectare site in Wushishi.

She stated that the project forms part of the Niger Food Initiative, an agricultural development programme launched by the state government in collaboration with the private sector.

The Dangote official said: “As part of our commitment to advancing agriculture, we plan to establish one of the largest rice mills here in Niger State." Abdurrahman explained that the high-capacity mill would significantly boost rice production and storage in the state, describing it as a cutting-edge facility that incorporates the latest innovations in rice milling technology.

She added: “This state-of-the-art facility ensures high efficiency, minimal waste, and -quality output. “Once operational, it will not only boost local rice production but also strengthen the entire agricultural value chain, from farm to market.

”Further, Abdurrahman noted that the mill would be ed by 32 silos, each with a capacity of 2,500 metric tonnes of paddy rice, and would include a captive power generation facility producing 5.8 megawatts of electricity, Punch reports.

She noted: “The project aligns with broader efforts to reduce reliance on the national grid."



Niger govt excited about the rice project

Representing Governor Muhammed Bago, Niger state commissioner for Trade, Investment and Industry, Aminu Takuma, said the state is fully open to large-scale agricultural investment. He praised the Dangote Group for its initiative and encouraged the conglomerate to leverage the state’s investor-friendly policies.

The minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Sabi Abdullahi, represented by Dr. Suleiman Ladan, reiterated the federal government’s commitment to promoting commercial agriculture, describing it as a cornerstone of President Bola Tinubu’s economic recovery agenda.

Takuma further revealed that the state government is taking steps to elevate the Niger Trade Fair to an international standard.

Meanwhile, Bisi Adeniyi, President of the Niger Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture has urged private sector players to tap into the state’s immense agricultural potential.

https://www.legit.ng/business-economy/economy/1656680-another-billionaire-moves-crash-rice-price-abdul-samad-rabiu-pledge/

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Audio crash,,if u see d 1200 rice wey i chop for mayor ds morning,,i wan cry.. i fit count d no of rice for d plate..i be wan talk,,but people dey there dey gist..i just respect my old age komot...Na to waka d shop i dey do now

Same way he crashed price of cement.

I am happy the way Nigeria customs are doing everything to intercept Rice especially at the express way, unfortunately this guy's use unusual routes ... You need native intelligence to catch them.

Good news because hunger is not good for the living.

Win win for Nigerians

Everybody should be careful the op and praise singers above and below are still the same people that prophesied that Dangote would crash petrol, diesel, kerosene, aviation fuel, cement, sugar, flour prices

Now they have added rice 🌾 and will soon add electricity 🔌 to the items their Dangote will soon CRASH it's price

Same APC no other

Edoreborn:
Audio crash,,if u see d 1200 rice wey i chop for mayor ds morning,,i wan cry.. i fit count d no of rice for d plate..i be wan talk,,but people dey there dey gist..i just respect my old age komot...Na to waka d shop i dey do now

Chai

Mayor no try for the small rice

Like this, mayor don lose one customer. All thanks to Tinubu.

Kriss216:

Chai

Mayor no try for the small rice

Like this, mayor don lose one customer. All thanks to Tinubu.

i dey tell u

jmoore:
Same way he crashed price of cement.

Abi o. As he has crashed the price of cement to 5k

Edoreborn:
i dey tell u

Abeg try forgive Mayor. No be em fault 🙏

story tellers

I hope they don't end up saying "Everything that was used to build the rice mill was imported and paid for in dollars so now we have to sell rice in dollars" if u know what I mean. Eh eh eh.

Kriss216:

Abeg try forgive Mayor. No be em fault 🙏

I don discover another cheaper place already..With 1000,,i go chop rice,,yam and beans with one kpomo

Edoreborn:
I don discover another cheaper place already..With 1000,,i go chop rice,,yam and beans with one kpomo

Ahead ahead 👍

Niger State is going to be a massive state soon.

Waoooo like he crashed fuel right

Putindbutt:


https://www.legit.ng/business-economy/economy/1656680-another-billionaire-moves-crash-rice-price-abdul-samad-rabiu-pledge/

Please, let him just stay off rice.

Which of these products did he crash prices?

Cement, sugar, petrol?

Kindly stay away from rice; let's just manage the price like that.

neonix:
I hope they don't end up saying "Everything that was used to build the rice mill was imported and paid for in dollars so now we have to sell rice in dollars" if u know what I mean. Eh eh eh.

And make we no hear say na adulterated rice we dey eat since

Dangote have never crashed anything before

Carazon:


And make we no hear say na adulterated rice we dey eat since

Abi o

It is crazy how anything goes in this country

How will a couple of persons hold an entire nation to ransom

Kai💔

Solsix:
Dangote have never crashed anything before

Seconded. …

Instead he makes things worse….

Make una sell this country gimme my share of the money make I use am carry ashi...


Na only mumu dey look forward or pray for a better Nigeria

It’s almost the pre election year, everything go crash

I pray he's successful in doing it o. 2 portion of Chinese fried rice with one portion of asun plus the package cost me 8k at an eatery in Lagos today. There's a time it won't cost me up to 4k

Why is it the BUA man that’s always spearheading anything about price reduction?
Same thing happened in cement price war.

Sometimes , I doubt the sincerity of Dangote.

Dangote please..no crash again. The one you don attempt to crash don do

The ones wey you don crash dey crash our pockets. Sotee, even bricklayers wey dey mould blocks no safe for street again, because kidnappers dey wonder how dem take dey buy cement.

He’s going to remove 5naira from the original price. Na him normal way