As the world continues to record high level of modernisation and globalisation, one of the things being beamed searchlight on is renewable energy. Research has shown that as at 2019, more than two-thirds of worldwide newly installed electricity capacity was renewable even as in 2020, photovoltaic solar and on-shore wind are the cheapest forms of building new electricity
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The National Assembly has been urged to support efforts made by the current leadership of the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) aimed at tackling the menace of substandard steel products in the country.
Such support will help to strengthen and bolster the campaign against substandard steel products and tackle economic saboteurs.
The Iron Rods Distributors Association of Nigeria in a statement signed by its chairman and secretary, Buhari Alabi and Abubakar Aliyu, said the sought support was critical to the success of the campaign to stop substandard steel products from entering the Nigerian market.
The Director General of the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Mr Farouk Salim, had recently ordered manufacturers and importers of steel products to get fake and substandard steel products out of the Nigerian market and prepare themselves for harmonized steel standard across West Africa.
Food fortification – the devil in the detail
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Why focus on food fortification?
Well, we know it’s one of the best tools we have to cost-effectively improve and protect people’s micronutrient status. The theory sounds simple. Add nutrients at the point of processing to staple foods and condiments that people already eat a lot – no big food supply chain shifts, and no major consumer behaviour change required. But the devil is in the detail.
We know in practice, impacts are mixed. The right foods aren’t always the ones that end up fortified. People change their eating patterns, industries are fragmented – with many lacking the incentive to fortify to standards set by governments, while governments lack capacity or will to regulate and enforce their own mandates.
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