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Health experts condemn barriers to safer nicotine

The Kenya-based Campaign for Safer Alternatives (CASA) has joined leading international scientists and public health experts in condemning attempts to block smokers getting new nicotine products that...
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Report identifies increase in tobacco control policies in last decade

The World Health Organisation (WHO) latest “WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic” published on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 finds that more countries have implemented tobacco...
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Health

These tobacco loud mouths and the rest of us

There is a general perception, and rightly so, that tobacco companies are economical when it comes to disclosing facts about the nature of their...
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Group alerts on ‘suspicious’ amendment of tobacco bill

Akinbode Oluwafemi, deputy director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), alerted media executives in Abuja on Thursday, May 4, 2017 on alleged...
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Health

How tobacco factory workers can get justice

There was upheaval in September 2002 when tens of Nigerian factory workers died in a fire accident that swept through the factory wing of...
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Video: WHO urges nations to discourage smoking

The World Health Organisation is calling on countries to "Get Ready for plain Packaging" of tobacco products to discourage more people from smoking. Meanwhile, tobacco...
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Health

Banning smoking in public in Lagos

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State last week signed a bill banning smoking in public places in the state into law. By implication, nobody...
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Rising oil prices renew coal debate for African SMEs power

African economies are facing mounting pressure from volatile global oil prices linked to the ongoing Gulf conflict, with analysts...
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Oil & Gas

Navy dismantles illegal refinery in Rivers, recovers 20,000 litres of stolen crude

The Nigerian Navy has deactivated an illegal refining in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State and recovered more...
Conservation

NCF seeks partnership with students to advance environmental conservation

The Director-General of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), Dr Joseph Onoja, has called on Nigerian students to partner with...

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Rising oil prices renew coal debate for African SMEs power

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Navy dismantles illegal refinery in Rivers, recovers 20,000 litres of stolen crude

The Nigerian Navy has deactivated an illegal refining in...