Salt Awareness Week: CAPPA Urges Fed Govt to Accelerate Salt Reduction Targets Regulation
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the Federal Government to accelerate the formulation of regulations for enforcing salt targets in processed and packaged foods, critical to checkmating the country’s growing prevalence of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and kidney failure. In a statement to mark World Salt Awareness Week 2025, the nongovernmental […]
The Legacy of Prof Falola and the silences in Botswana-North West Province (South Africa) Scholarship
By Christian John Makgala (Special Talk given at a private reception to celebrate the conferment of the honorary doctorate on Prof. Toyin Falola by the North West University, Mahikeng campus, 9 May 2025). Good evening everyone. I’m not quite sure how to start my little speech this evening. Perhaps, I should begin by thanking our […]
CAPPA Joins CSOs’ Launch of Historic Climate Justice Movement
By Esi-ife Arogundade Over 40 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have united to form the Nigerian Climate Justice Movement (CJM), with the aim of addressing the severe impacts of climate change on the African continent. The movement was officially launched during a landmark two-day event in Abuja, on May 6 and May 7, 2025, where a […]
Newspaper Headlines for May 9, 2025
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Report: How Corporations Hook Nigerians On Unhealthy Foods, Increase NCDs
A new report has exposed how food corporations use a sophisticated web of marketing strategies to get Nigerians – especially children and young adults – hooked on ultra-processed foods which damage their health, undermine public health policies, and cost the Nigerian healthcare systems billions. The report “Junk on Our Plates: Exposing Deceptive Marketing of Unhealthy […]
Yoruba Ronu !
By Babafemi Ojudu I have pondered on this for a long time, and I must now give voice to it—before we are once again used and discarded, before we are called out, not to think, but to chant. In less than two years, another round of elections will arrive. And, like clockwork, those who sit […]
Saka Balogun becomes Balogun of Ogbomosoland
The Oyo State Government has approved the nomination and appointment of Dr. Saka Balogun as the new Balogun of Ogbomosoland. This was disclosed in a statement by the Commissioner for Information, Prince Dotun Oyelade. According to the statement, information from the office of the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Mr Ademola Ojo, showed […]
Tinubu celebrates Chief Imam Agbotomokekere at 90
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has rejoiced with Sheikh Abdul-Ganiyy AbuBakr Agbotomokekere, the Chief Imam of Ibadanland, Grand Imam of Oyo State, and Grand Patron of the League of Imams and Alfas of Yorubaland, Edo, and Delta States, on his 90th birthday. He extoled Sheikh Agbotomokekere for his exemplary life of uprightness, humility, and steadfast devotion […]
CAPPA to Launch Junk On Our Plates Report
On May 7, 2025, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) will hold a media presentation and official launch of its latest report titled Junk On Our Plates: Exposing Deceptive Marketing Of Unhealthy Foods Across Seven States In Nigeria. Junk On Our Plates sheds light on how food and beverage companies are fueling Nigeria’s non-communicable diseases (NCDs) crisis through […]
Newspaper Headlines for May 5, 2025
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