Day: October 17, 2024

By: Mandy Park African civil society organisations working to promote and defend sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes in Cameroon, Nigeria, and South Africa on Wednesday, 16 October 2024, jointly released a report exposing the beverage industry’s global campaign to thwart policies and weaken taxes that protect public health. The report, titled “Sweetened Profits: The Industry’s Playbook to Fight Sweetened Beverage Taxes,” demonstrates how the beverage industry, also referred to as Big Soda, uses a global playbook of strategies to deny, dilute, and delay effective policy on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and other…

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By: Mandy Park A former Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development in Abia State, Dr Philips Nto has decried what he called frequent harassment by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC), for a case that has lasted for nine years. He therefore asked the Commission to charge him to court if it has sufficient evidence to prosecute him, rather than the current situation they keep inviting him to Abuja toward the end of the year for the past nine years. Dr Nto was reacting to an invitation sent to him…

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