Xclusive: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Is Exporting Cassava Bread To Tanzania [PHOTO]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLgvFJWO9DU/UZSkynLWDlI/AAAAAAABep0/pkruFPu2Yrs/s1600/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLgvFJWO9DU/UZSkynLWDlI/AAAAAAABep0/pkruFPu2Yrs/s640/2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has begun a mission to introduce African countries to Nigeria’s innovation in bakery, Cassava Bread.<br />Mr. Obasanjo, a goodwill ambassador for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, recently took the bread to Tanzania where he publicly munched the bread with the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Mrisho Jakaya Kikwete.<br />Former President Benjamin Mkapa of the United Republic of Tanzania also ate the bread for the first time. The leaders supported the innovation, noting that it would bring several benefits to the continent.<br />The 40 per cent cassava bread was first developed by IITA in Nigeria, as part of efforts to boost the utilization of cassava and create market for farmers.<br />President Kikwete after inaugurating the IITA Science Building in Dar es Salaam on Monday commended IITA for the bread technology, saying that the bread had an “excellent” taste.<br />“There is no difference between this bread and the normal bread we are used to,” he added.<br />Mr. Obasanjo encouraged the Tanzania President to promote the use of cassava in confectionaries in his country to<br />transform agriculture. He noted that the use of cassava flour in bread would stimulate the demand for the root crop, create jobs and, more importantly, make farmers proud.<br />Mr. Obasanjo, in 2002 initiated a policy on 10 percent inclusion in bread under “the Presidential Initiative on Cassava,” program. The program which was implemented by IITA and national partners, drove the demand for cassava, increased productivity by about 10 million tons in 6 years, and made Nigeria the top world producer of cassava.

Xclusive: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Is Exporting Cassava Bread To Tanzania [PHOTO]

Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has begun a mission to introduce African countries to Nigeria’s innovation in bakery, Cass...

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Xclusive: Agege Bread Now Sold In The United Kingdom

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FrjASJ1fxM0/UVcmHqknjDI/AAAAAAAAANA/Zf-MbGJGjDk/s1600/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="328" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FrjASJ1fxM0/UVcmHqknjDI/AAAAAAAAANA/Zf-MbGJGjDk/s640/Capture.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> The entrepreneurial savvy of the average Nigerian is not to be taken for a joke or trifled with. When our correspondent came across an Agege Bread shop in London, he was stuck in disbelief. Undoubtedly Agege Bread has infiltrated the cosmopolitan city of London.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5438533803477296299" name="more"></a>Agege Bread is a loaf of bread made popular by the bakers from the same Lagos suburb that make the bread. Millions of Lagosians are familiar with the delicacy and have it as a regular part of their balanced diet.<br />Now some savvy entrepreneur has taken the concept to London, England and is making a small fortune baking and delivering Nigerian styled loaves to lovers of baked products in the Queen’s own country.<br />One noticeable difference about the difference in the London made Agege bread is the packaging is more professional and appealing than the locally made version. However that is simply a testament to the enabling environment that a country like Great Britain affords its citizens and migrants.<br />According to the website of the company, “The idea of providing home away from home in England for an average Nigerian in diaspora, to enjoy quality and home taste Nigerian conventional food at the lowest possible price, was our aim that gave birth to London Agege bread. In 2005 from the East end of London, the dream was born and has since spread across the UK and Europe.<br />From a dream, it has grown to become a household name all over London, Northern Ireland and Europe, a corporate brand and a quality standard in the bakery/confectionery industry in England offering quality, comfort and home taste satisfaction in diaspora for Nigerians and Europeans also other Africans individuals, groups, churches, mosques and other corporate organizations.”<br />At its South East London, Deptford Street address, diners can not only buy bread, they can choose from a plethora of other soulful dishes that immediately transport the diner mentally to a Bukka in Nigeria.

Xclusive: Agege Bread Now Sold In The United Kingdom

The entrepreneurial savvy of the average Nigerian is not to be taken for a joke or trifled with. When our correspondent came across an...

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