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Consumption of foreign foods harmful to Nigerians’ health: NCAC Chief

Otunba Segun Runsewe, Director-General of NCAC

*Promoting Nigerian food culture is a collective responsibility of every citizen to encourage healthy living, create employment opportunities for our teeming unemployed youths and open up business opportunities, says Otunba Segun Runsewe, Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture

Alexander Davis | ConsumerConnect

The National Council for Arts and Culture has drawn the attention of Nigerians to the need to patronise ‘Made in Nigeria’ foods, promote the Nigerian food culture and discourage the consumption of foreign foods.

Otunba Segun Runsewe, Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture and President of World Crafts Council (African Region), said this in a statement Friday, March 19 in Abuja, FCT.

Runsewe noted that promoting Nigerian food culture is a collective responsibility of every Nigerian so as to encourage healthy living, create employment opportunities for our teeming unemployed youths and open up business opportunities at the micro and macro levels.

Nigerian dishes

According to him, the media parley is intended to draw attention of Nigerians to the need to patronise Made in Nigeria foods, promote the Nigerian food culture and discourage the consumption of foreign foods.

He observed that most of imported foods are preserved with chemicals that have long time negative effects on human body.

Runsewe added that all Nations of the world are devising various strategies of mitigating the effects of COVID-19.

The pandemic has come with severe hardship to all citizens of the world, but with the promotion of the consumption of our brand of foods, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be minimized, he noted.

The NCAC Director-General stated: “Nigerian foods are not only natural and rich in nutrients, most of our foods are medicinal, and can help to build the body and boost our immunity system.”

The Nigerian food basket has the capacity to create 2,000 direct jobs and 2,500 indirect jobs in a short term, and over five million jobs in the long run if sustained, he added.

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