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Research: Lab-grown Meat May Oust Beef/Chicken in 2024

June 18, 2022 3:33 am

Non-slaughter meat options are fast gaining popularity. Imagine eating a piece of meat that was fully ‘lab cultivated’ in test tubes or gigantic steel bioreactors. No bones, no blood, no risks of ingesting E. Coli, Salmonella, and other pathogens. Just a chunk of meat that did not cost one more cow or chicken its life. Well, as of December 2020, this was already possible in Singapore. You could order a serving of chicken nuggets and find out they taste a little different from the regular because they were made with cultured chicken.

Although lab-grown meat is said to …

Customs Intercepts Frozen Chicken, Others At Lagos Airport

November 13, 2019 3:25 am

As the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) continued to observe the land border closure order of the federal government, the Muritala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) command of the service has intercepted N68.9 million frozen products smuggled through the airport.

This was disclosed at a joint press conference between the Customs Area Controllers of the MMIA Command and Muritala Muhammed Area Command (cargo section), headed by Comptroller Adewale Adeniyi and Comptroller Lena Oyama.

Speaking to journalists, Adeniyi said the seizure was as a result of the border closure because the seizure was first of in its kinds in the history of the …

Closure Of Borders; Prices Of Rice, Frozen Chicken Soar

October 7, 2019 12:36 pm

The closure of the country’s borders seems to have led to an increase in prices of some food items such as rice, frozen chicken and turkey.

Observers say if the borders are not opened before December, it portends a bleak Christmas for many Nigerians, given the astronomical rise in the prices of both the local and imported rice.

Investigations by our correspondents in major markets in Lagos showed the prices of some of the items had increased between 42 per cent and 100 per cent from August when the borders were closed to the last week of September.

At Ile …