A new report on the state of the tobacco industry interference in Nigeria has revealed a marked increase in the industry’s meddling in public health policies, in particular, tobacco control measures. Sunday Ehigiator reports Nigeria ratified the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s (WHO FCTC) Article 5.3 guidelines on 20 October 2005, and...
The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance has called on the Standards Organisations of Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Health, the Nigeria Police Force, and Federal Competition and Consumer Protection, among others, to immediately commence the enforcement of the graphic health warnings policy on tobacco products. The group said the Federal Ministry of Health had approved a...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and other stakeholders have bemoaned what they called the high incidences of tobacco industry interference in Nigeria and on the continent, saying more should be done to protect public health policies from commercial and vested interests. Referencing data from the latest Africa Tobacco Industry Interference Index, they noted that Kenya, Nigeria and...
The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, on Tuesday, lamented the paltry budgetary allocation to tobacco control in the country. Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja, the Chairman of NTCA, Akinbode Oluwafemi, disclosed that the allocation to tobacco control plunged by 50 per cent from N9.4m in 2022 to N4.7m in 2023. According to him, the slash...
The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA) says the country’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) efforts was being undermined by the continuous use and abuse of tobacco in the country. Akinbode Oluwafemi, the Chairman of NTCA, while briefing on ‘Effective Tobacco Control Funding in Nigeria’ on Friday in Abuja explained that tobacco use has continued to impede...
The recent convergence of movie practitioners on the auspices of Nollywood in Abuja to discuss the dangers of smoking in movies, is indicative that the Nigerian movie industry is now grasping the reality of the threat smoking in films pose to children and the uninformed. While the National Tobacco Control Act of 2015 and...
Civil Society Organizations under the auspices of the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, NTCA has expressed disappointment over the allocation of N4.7 million to tobacco control in 2023 budget amid the spread of tobacco-related diseases. The Alliance was reacting to the poor enforcement of the Act on controlling tobacco products consumption by Nigerians. They said: “While tobacco...
Mamora stated that sponsoring the National Tobacco Control Bill was a tough battle but that CAPPA and CAT were very supportive. The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), an NGO, has lauded former minister, Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora for sponsoring the National Tobacco Control Bill. The Executive Director of CAPPA, Mr Akinbode Oluwafemi, gave the commendation on...
AS cancer continues to take its toll on Nigerians, a Civil Society Organization, CSO, Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, NTCA, Monday, demanded the placement of mouth-cancer pictures on tobacco products. Speaking during a press conference, with theme ‘Call for Implementation of Graphic Warnings on Tobacco Products’, the Chairman, NTCA, Akinbode Oluwafemi, pointed out that mouth-cancer is...
THE Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to as a matter of urgency put the machinery running to implement effective tobacco tax regimes in Nigeria to address the harmful tendency the smoking of the product posed to the nation’s populace. This was just as the organisation added that...
