CAPPA Criticizes Tobacco Industry for Promoting E-cigarettes

▪︎Akinbode Oluwafemi, Executive Director of CAPPA Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has condemned a five-year deal between Grammy Award-winning artiste Burna Boy’s company, BrkFst, and Aspire North America, LLC, a subsidiary of Inspire Technology Inc., for the manufacture and distribution of vaping products in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Europe. According to CAPPA,…

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Why Govt Should Stop Chinese Goods To Enable Us Develop Our Own – Shittu

In this New Telegraph’s interview, a former National President of Association of Nigeria Customs License Agents (ANCLA), and the Managing Director of Skelas Nigeria Limited, Mr. Olayiwola Shittu, speaks on the need for Nigeria to domesticate and enforce all maritime conventions and protocols it entered into. Do you support the organised private sector’s (OPS) proposal…

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IFC Shares “Must Do” For Women Who Trade Across Borders

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has called on trade finance institutions the like of Afreximbank, the  Development Bank of Nigeria, AfDB, etc, as well as the governments and regulators, to improve women-owned businesses access to  finance, especially in Nigeria and the other emerging markets. IFC made the call in its latest country studies  results, titled…

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