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...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria,in a handshake with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil
President Bola Tinubu on Monday welcomed Petrobras’s imminent return to Nigeria, five years after Brazil’s state-owned oil company halted its joint venture operations.
At...
Immigration Repatriates 42 Foreign Cybercriminals , 150 More To Follow
The Nigerian Immigration Service will today, Sunday, August 18, 2025, deport 42 out of the 192 Chinese and Philippine nationals convicted for cyber terrorism and Ponzi scheme offences back to...
A Lagos based Human Rights lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo has sent a petition to the Nigerian Senate asking the National Assembly to pass a resolution condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza by acknowledging the genocide and ethnic cleansing being carried...
Mr Hamid Joda
TAJBank Limited, Nigeria’s fastest growing non-interest bank, has sustained its record-breaking feat in the nation’s banking history with the payment of 20 kobo per share dividend to its shareholders at the end of financial year (FY) 2024.
TAJBank’s...
Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah has been elected as the ninth president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group.
The AfDB announced his election on Thursday following rounds of voting by the Board of Governors during the Bank’s Annual Meetings in...
The United States Trade Representative on Monday, criticised Nigeria’s import ban on 25 categories of goods, claiming that the restrictions limit market access for American exporters.
This came shortly after President Donald Trump introduced tariffs on goods entering the US,...
The Nigerian government in partnership with Briech UAS has unveiled the first indigenously manufactured attack drones with bombs and missiles.
The collaboration is between the Nigerian military and Briech which led to the successful demonstration of the attack drone and...
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Wednesday forfeited to the Federal Government the sum of $20,000 confiscated by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) from a United States of America-bound Nigerian traveller, Olusola Okunfulure.
Okunfulure was arrested by NCS...
The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has exposed the failures of the World Bank’s water privatisation reforms in Nigeria, leaving millions without reliable access to potable water while saddling the country with long-term debt.
Titled Big Debt, Big...
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...
