 Hello, good evening. I am Kimberley Oubiebo. This is News Now. President Mohamed Buhari says he closed the country's land borders to encourage Nigerians to produce food for their consumption. Buhari spoke today while inaugurating new customs headquarters located in the Mitama district of the federal capital Territory. He noted that although the move was initially criticized, Nigerians eventually appreciated it. Please note that from Lake Chad to Benin, it's more than 1,600 kilometers. Only God can effectively guard that border. So you need a person who will have the energy and the confidence to effectively supervise. And I deliberately closed the border because knowing Nigerians, they order rice and give some Nigerian address and then they bring the rice here. And with our land and our potentialities, God, we thank God, Nigeria is favored. We have people, we have land, we have weather. How many nations are so lucky as Nigeria in the world? Very few nations are as lucky as we are. We thank God for that. So closing that border, 1,600 kilometers more than that from Lake Chad to Benin. And Nigeria insists that they have to impress their neighbors and other people that they eat foreign rice. I said no rice, you either you eat what you grow, you grow what you eat or you die. I think I try to make my point and later Nigeria appreciated it because it provides more job. People go back to the land, we have the land and we produce what we eat. Later whoever bring, grow excess rice, eat his own rice or sell it somewhere else, but not to Nigeria. And for people who think that our neighbors can be unusual, okay, there are nothing you can do with our neighbor. That was why when I became the head of state of the president, my first visit was to Nigeria, Chad and Cameroons. Because neighborhood based on personal and national issue is very important. If you don't secure the confidence and cooperation of your neighbor, you are in trouble. If you are not in trouble, your children and grandchildren will be in trouble. So it's very good. I established the relationship with my neighbors. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.