Saturday, January 31, 2026
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Health

SSB Tax: Should Private Profits Supersede Public Health? -By Robert Egbe

Nigeria’s shift toward a pro-health review of the tax payable by manufacturers of non-alcoholic, sweetened, and carbonated drinks, commonly known as Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs), has reached a critical moment. Last November, the Senate Joint Committee on Finance, Customs and Excise...

Contempt Proceedings: Court Orders Service Of Forms 48, 49 On IGP Over Alleged Disobedience

IGP Egbetokun A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) be served with Forms 48 and 49, directing him to show cause why an order of committal should not be made...

Foundation Equips Lagos Teens With Digital Skills Amid Rising Youth Unemployment

Members of the Charity Ayo foundation & Some youth who participated in the program A non-governmental organisation, Charity Ayo Foundation, has successfully wrapped up its flagship Teenagers in Tech program, a transformative one-month initiative that empowered over 300...

NAFDAC Begins Clampdown On Sachet Alcohol, Cites Risks To Children, Youth

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has commenced full enforcement of the ban on the production and sale of alcohol packaged in sachets and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles below 200 millilitres, following a resolution...

Dispatch Rider Jailed For Distributing Prohibited Drugs 

Dispatch Rider Jailed For Distributing Prohibited Drugs  A 33 year-old dispatch rider, Yahaya Nuru, has been convicted and sentenced to a total of 7 years imprisonment, by a Federal High Court, Lagos, over unlawful distribution of large quantities tramadol, a...

Court Jails Freight Agency Manager, Gbenga Komolafe, Over Unlawful Importation Of Hard Drugs

A Federal High Court, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced one Komolafe Gbenga John, a manager with a Netherland-based freight agency company, for trafficking in prohibited hard drugs. Komolafe was convicted and sentences to 12 months imprisonment by Justice Friday Ogazi,...

Court Jails 35 Years Old Deji Adesanya, For Dealing In Hard Drug 

Deji Adesanya & his accomplice during their arrest A 35 year-old man, Deji Adesanya, has been convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment, by a Federal High Court Lagos, for unlawful dealing in Sativa cannabis, a prohibited weed, also known...

Sachet Alcohol Ban: Court Asked To Restrain FG From Interfering With NAFDAC Enforcement 

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court, Lagos to issue injunctive orders restraining the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the Attorney-General of the Federation who represents the Federal Government, including...

‘Spiritualists’ Nabbed With Fake $3.4million, €280, 000 Notes 

A five-member syndicate have been arrested for allegedly swindling one Halima Sanni the sum of  N26, 550, 000 Million, under false pretence of providing spiritual cleansing and solutions to different ailments. Of The five members syndicate who claimed to be...

Man Docked Over Alleged N55m Fraud 

A man, Gabriel Celestine Nwawuzor, has been arraigned before a Federal High Court, Lagos, over alleged money laundering and obtaining the sum of N55 million by false pretence. Gabriel alongside a company, Moonlink Pharmaceuticals Limited were arraigned before the court...
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Court Awards Punitive Damages Against First Bank Over ‘Wrongful Blacklisting’

The Owerri division of the National Industrial Court, Imo State, has awarded a punitive cost of N50 million, against...
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