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Guiness backs UN's initiative to reduce road accidents I The Creative Writing stream

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GUINNESS Nigeria Pic has renewed its commitment

to road safety by partnering with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to stem the tide of unnecessary fataliJ:ies resulting from road accident

Speci fically, the company has declared its support for the 'UN decade of Action on Road Safety' with the aim to reduce the number of fatalities caused by Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) by 50 per cent by the year 2020.

The move was part of the nation's launch of the United Nations Decade of Action on road safety in Abuja, at the weekend.

According the company, it has shown commitment to promoting responsible con­·surTIption of alcohol in the country, as part of a healthy, balanced lifestyle through its various responsible drinking initiatives.

Corporate' Social Responsibility Manager at

Guinness Nigeria, Mrs. Adrianne Nwagwu said the company has continued to sensitise Nigerians on the need to abstain from excess talang of alcohol drinks, while driving on the road as it por­tend risk to human health.

''The company has consis­tently shown its strong com­mitment to promoting the responsible consumption of alcohol, as part of a healthy, balanced lifestyle through its various Responsible Drinlang initiatives. These include asuc­cessful "Don't Drink and Drive" campaign, which was run in January 20U on radio and bi boards, as well as, an alcohol education platform called DRINKlQ, which the company leverages to engage various stakeholders," Nwagwu said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimat­ed that over13 million people were killed by Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) and 50 mil­lion injured on the world's

Firm blames hike in. food price on cit:mate Change From Joke Akanmu, Abuja '"("tiE General Manager, 1 Golden Pasta Company, Yiannis Kacshichtis, has blamed the hike in food prices in the country, to the unprecedenteq bad weather conditions across the world.

He maintained that the long spell of uncontrolled bush fires in Russsia and Australia, adding to the flooding in the United State and Canada has aided the skyrocket of the price of wheat, which subseCjuently led to the huge rise in cost of food across the globe. Katshictis, who stated this at

the "2011 Customers' forum of the Golden Pasta Compa ny Ltd. and the Golden Noodles Nigeria Ltd., said that the rise in cost of wheat flour, which is their major raw material, contributed to the increase in the price of their product

He noted that the price of their product was dependant

':lin: the price of wheat in the international market, hint­ing that the company may likely increase the price of

their product this year. Accordingto him, "towards

the last quarter of the year (2010) we have struggled to contain the price hike in wheat products including wheat flour our major raw material, but we cannot con­tinue to cushion the effect of this hike in the prices of wheat, thus as a prolonged battle we were forced to increase the prices of our products.

He disclosed because of the hike in price of wheat flour and some other factors, the company was not able to meet their target as they only achieved 85 percentof its tar­get, which is 3 per cent high­er than the previous yea.r.

The general manager explained that in their bid not to destabilised the mar­ket behaviour of the con­sumers, the prices were done in small increment, adding that the prices which could have been increased in December 2010 was not done till February 2011.

roads yearly. Over80 percentofthe figure

occurred in developing coun­tries, with African countries, such as Nigeria having the highest death rate.

5thool of Media .and Cdmmunlcation, At its general meeting of Aprll 25, 2008, the UN recognised the importance of a renewed commitment to road safety to stem the tide of unnecessary fatalities resulting from RIC's.

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