Tag: fruit
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Ripening fruits with chemicals causes cancer, heart, kidney failure, others – NAFDAC cautions
The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has cautioned Nigerian citizens to desist from using chemicals or other unnatural methods to ripen consumable fruits as it causes harmful irreversible health hazards. The Director-General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, who spoke during the South- East Zone Media Sensitization Workshop on “the Dangers of…
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FG probes illegal sales of fruit donated by Saudi govt to Muslims in Nigeria
Some unscrupulous persons have released for sale the 200 tonnes of fruit donated to Nigerian Muslims by the government of Saudi Arabia. The fruit, date palm, which is peculiar to the Middle East, was expected to be distributed free of charge to indigent Muslims via designated mosques in the country; but it is now being…