A pan-African organisation, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) said that non-communicable diseases arising from excessive consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB) among others, account for about 30 per cent of deaths annually recorded in Nigeria. During a two-day Journalism Training on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB) Tax and Industry Monitoring in Kano, CAPPA’s Executive Director, Akinbode Oluwafemi said: ‘Nigeria is facing …

The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA, has urged the country’s regulators as well as the film and cinema industry to protect the next generation of Nigerians from the predatory tactics of the tobacco industry by sustaining the #SmokeFreeNollywood campaign. CAPPA’s Executive Director, Akinbode Oluwafemi, said the tobacco industry had a track record of surreptitiously using movies and music …