• Osinbajo laments post-harvest losses
• Says transforming Africa’s food system a public private affair
Low, fixed-income earners and unemployed Nigerians are in for trouble as living under the burden of higher food prices has become unbearable, as a result of grossly inadequate food supply.
This follows years of neglect of the agro-industrial sectors and disrupted farming activities caused by insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and herder/farmer clashes, as well as climate change, which also hampers productivity of farmers. This is compounded by COVID-19 interruptions in farming activities and gradual erosion of most farmers’ capital amid natural disasters of floods and droughts.
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Advertisements for the Super Bowl this year aren t the same because some big brands, such as Coke and Budweiser, will not compete for viewers attention.
Many brands are skipping one of the most-watched TV events of the year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to MarketWatch, parent companies are shuffling their playbooks, such as using advertising money for more practical use including COVID-19 relief or even reevaluating the best way to use the money in the middle of a pandemic.
Even Anheuser-Busch will be foregoing its traditional in-game airtime by using the money for COVID-19 vaccine awareness.
You try chugging an entire Coca-Cola without belching.
Coca-Cola’s iconic 1980 Super Bowl commercial starring Mean Joe Greene, the then-defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, might be one of the most memorable ads ever aired during the Big Game. But the commercial officially titled Hey Kid, Catch! wasn’t too much of a gas to film. Mean Joe Greene, a longtime defensive tackle with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the star of Coca-Cola s 1980 Super Bowl commercial, had once said that drinking all those bottles of Coke left him with a (predictable) problem. (Ross Lewis/Getty Images)
Greene himself admitted as much in a 1992 interview, in which he claimed he drank 24 Cokes during one day of filming, finishing each bottle in just a few gulps.