Nigeria, March 13 -- The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has started returning assorted food items seized from traders in border communities in Sokoto and Katsina states, North-west Nigeria.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the food items were seized at different border communities while being smuggled to the Niger Republic. The North-west shares an expansive border with the Niger Republic in Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Jigawa states.

Customs officials seized the items to stop the exportation while Nigerians were going through economic woes marked by high food prices.

President Bola Tinubu had directed the NCS to return all food items confiscated at border communities with the condition that all would be sold in the country.

In Sokot...