Tag: bread
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Kogi imposes levy on every loaf of bread
Kogi State Information and Communications Commissioner Kingsley Fanwo said yesterday that the newly imposed bread levy in the state was to protect indigenous bakers from those “who bring bread to the state without paying any form of levy.” Fanwo in a statement in Lokoja said no responsible government would “sit by and watch her indigenous…
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Bakers to Nigerians: Get ready for 60% increase in prices of bread
Bakers in Lagos State have urged the Federal Government to intervene in the prices of baking materials, which may lead to increase in the prices of bread by 60 per cent anytime soon. The bakers complained that the increase in the prices of baking materials was because of the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the world. In…
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Bakeries in Nigeria still use cancer-causing chemical to bake bread – Expert raises alarm
A professor of food chemistry at Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State, Oladunni Akinnawo has alerted the Federal Government and other relevant agencies of how bakers have continued the use of a banned substance, potassium bromate in baking bread. Recall that the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, had earlier warned bakeries to…