Nigeria Content Online

The Bauchi Meat Company is negotiating a N300 million contract with the Nigerian Army for the supply of minced meat.

The Commissioner
for Commerce and Industries, Yerima Giade, said this in an interview
with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi, on Tuesday, claiming
that the contract when signed, would enable the company to supply the
product to soldiers in the UN peacekeeping operations abroad.

He said that the
product would be a substitute to the 600 cartons of dry meat (kilishi)
currently being supplied to soldiers in various peacekeeping missions
abroad.

Mr Giade explained that last year, the company had supplied dry meat but that authorities of the army preferred minced meat.

He said that
negotiations had also been intensified to get the various airlines and
the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to patronise the
product.

Mr Giade said that the company has expanded the supply of its product to Abuja and Lagos to further boost its revenue base.

The company which was established in 1964, collapsed 25 years ago,
after it was inherited from the defunct Northern Nigeria Government
company and was resuscitated by the present administration.