Isaac Okoroafor

Director General of the NIA, Ayodele Oke, had said that the money, valued at N13 billion going by the current official exchange rate, had been released in cash by the CBN in order to maintain the discreet nature of the assignment for which it was approved.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has said that the country will begin to export rice to other countries by the end of 2017.