Showing posts with label Akinbode Oluwafemi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Akinbode Oluwafemi. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Multi-billion naira tobacco industry comes under fire

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With 20 billion sticks of cigarette valued at N200bn being consumed annually in Nigeria, the tobacco industry is sure a money spinner. ...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Anti-tobacco groups task media on control bill

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ANTI-TOBACCO campaign groups have urged the Nigerian media to intensify efforts at ensuring that the National Tobacco Control Bill (NTCB...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

ERAFoEN laments Dantong’s death

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Environmental  Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has described the killing of Gyang Dantong, Chairman, Senate Comm...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Dantong’s death great loss to public health, says ERA/FoEN

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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has described the killing of Senator Gyang Dantong, chair of the ...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Battling tobacco trading

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ERA/FoEN wants tobacco bill signed THE National Tobacco Control Bill, passed by the Senate on March 15, 2011, and concurred by the ...
Friday, June 1, 2012

World unites against tobacco, US decries drug menace in Africa

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COUNTRIES of the world yesterday united against tobacco and the industries, promising to save humanity from the myriad of health hazards...

National Tobacco Bill missing on Jonathan’s table

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As Nigeria marks the World Tobacco Day today, the National Tobacco Bill which was passed to law by the sixth Senate on March 9, 2011 ha...

Nigerians at risk of looming tobacco epidemic

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In recent times, the issue of uncontrolled tobacco use has continued to attract comments from public health experts globally. This is s...

Activists urge Jonathan to sign National Tobacco Control Bill

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As the world marked the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) yesterday, activists made a passionate plea to President Goodluck Jonathan: sign the N...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Whither Nigeria's Tobacco Control Bill?

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Tobacco bill, big test of Jonathan’s promise – Oluwafemi

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Akinbode Oluwafemi Akinbode Oluwafemi, Director, Corporate Accountability and Campaigns of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of t...

'Nigeria's tobacco control bill is missing'

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One year after the House of Representatives concurred with the National Tobacco Control Bill after it was passed by the Upper House, the b...

World No Tobacco Day: ERA wants tobacco bill signed

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As the World marks the 2012 “World No Tobacco Day” on Thursday, the Environment Rights Action has called on the Minister of Health, Prof. ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Tobacco control bill lost in transit

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THE National Tobacco Control Bill (NTCB) may have gone missing between the National Assembly and the Presidency a year after it was ...
Monday, May 28, 2012

STAKEHOLDERS ROUNDTABLE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION ON THE NATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL BILL

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‘How tobacco firms are hurting our health system’

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Ahead of this year’s World No Tobacco Day which is marked every May 31, Akinbode Oluwafemi, director of Administration and Corporate Acc...