Traders struggle following Nigeria border closures The days of heaping 50-kilo sacks of rice across the saddle of their motorbike and slipping a few notes to a customs officer are now gone.\\nWith Nigeria having snapped its borders shut, the legions of motorbike riders who used to satisfy the nation's hunger for imported rice are lucky at best to sneak through a few packets of Basmati. The border closure is part of President Muhammadu Buhari's plan to end Nigeria's economic dependence on oil, by developing domestic agriculture and industry, but the country's traders-- who rely on the cheap imports -- say the policy has left them in disarray. \\n IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES