Abdul Samad Rabiu, Nigeria’s second-richest man and the founder of BUA Group, is pushing his food manufacturing empire into one of Nigeria’s most strategically important consumer markets, relaunching BUA-branded rice into the Nigerian market through BUA Foods Plc as his son Isyaku Khalifa Rabiu takes charge of the group’s global procurement and supply chain operations. The commercial reintroduction of BUA Rice follows years of dormancy in the brand’s rice presence in Nigeria, during which the group focused primarily on sugar, flour, pasta and edible oils under the BUA Foods umbrella. The return of BUA Rice to retail shelves has drawn…