Nigeria’s Health Financing: Lessons From Canada’s $32.5bn Tobacco Settlement
By Robert Egbe
Nigeria’s decision to earmark SIN taxes – levies on alcohol, tobacco, and sugary drinks – for health financing, signals a firm commitment to prioritising citizens’ health. It also aligns...
A good Deed From Lagos House Of Assembly
By Major-General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (rtd)
Though I am still grieving over the untimely transition of my beloved favorite sibling, and uncle by Yoruba tradition, Muritala Tolagbe Ajadi Animashaun just a day before, I...
The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has commended the Federal Government’s decision to develop a draft policy that will earmark revenues from excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) for health financing.
It described the initiative as a decisive...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos presided over by Justice Dehinde Dipeolu on Friday sentenced a 25 years old university graduate Faruk Mumuni to 2 years imprisonment or a fine of N5 million for dealing in 149 kilogrammes...
Izugha during his arrest
Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court , Lagos on Thursday convicted and sentence one Okechukwu Izugha to six months imprisonment for trafficking in 500 grams of Cocaine.
The judge handed down the sentence following Izugha's...
Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court, Lagos today sentence one Chioba Robert Uchenna to one month imprisonment for trafficking in 1.70 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa which he attempted to export to Pakistan through the Murtala Muhammed Airport,...
Lagos Water Corporation Managing Director Muktaar Tijani
The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has condemned the Lagos State Government’s decision to privatise water supply through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme, calling the process anti-people and a betrayal of...
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has noted with concern, the recent remarks made by Mahmood Adegbite, Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources, Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, acknowledging that residents of...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested the founder and General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Adefolusho Olasele, also known as Abbas Ajakaiye, over his alleged role in multiple shipments of illicit drugs from Ghana to...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Wednesday, convicted and sentenced a 24-year-old man, Emmanuel Chekwube, to a term of seven years imprisonment for drug trafficking.
Justice Lewis Allagoa sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to a...
Nigeria’s Health Financing: Lessons From Canada’s $32.5bn Tobacco Settlement
By Robert Egbe
Nigeria’s decision to earmark SIN taxes – levies on alcohol, tobacco, and sugary drinks...
A Taiwanese multinational conglomerate and global tech giant, Foxconn has expressed interest in setting up its manufacturing plant in Ogun State.
AVP, Corporate BD Chairman...
