Prices of food stuff at major food markets in Lagos and environs have increased by over 300 percent over time. The cost of importation, national insecurity, global climatic change, partial removal of fuel subsidy and lack of a thriving food policy are partly responsible for the current trend. But one year into the Goodluck Jonathan Administration, the prices of...
Expired, spoilt and unwholesome products, valued at N810 million and voluntarily handed over by manufacturing companies were, yesterday, destroyed by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC. At a briefing at its Sagamu, Ogun State, dumpsite, the Director of Enforcement, Mr. Garba Macdonald, who represented the Director- General of...
Federal government is to stop importation of rice for local consumption by 2015, says Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina. The Minister spoke weekend in Rivers state during a tour of Notore industrial complex, Onne. He said the government had evolved measures to ensure the nation’s food security would notbe at risk. He said by...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has sealed off 10 sachet water factories in Port Harcourt for flouting the agency’s regulations. The Rivers State Coordinator of NAFDAC, Mr. Bolakale Ayinde, said the operation, which was carried out in conjunction with the Association of Table Water Producers, was targetted at putting an end to the...
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, raised the alarm over the food shortage in most of African countries, predicting that, the current food insecurity ravaging African nations may persist unless successive governments continue with the policies and programmes of their predecessors. Obasanjo stated this during the his speech at African Regional...
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