Nigeria seeks $40bn over smoking
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A multi-billion dollar lawsuit brought by the government against major tobacco firms is to open in Nigeria.
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A ban on smoking in public places is being enforced in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, for the first time.
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Rising tobacco use and poverty will  fuel cancer across the developing world, more than doubling the  number of new cases to 27 million by 2050, experts predicted on  Thursday.
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An international treaty aimed at curbing tobacco sales and advertising is set to come into force.
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LAGOS - Nigerian unions began a four-day general strike yesterday to protest against rising fuel prices, issuing their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo and his programme of economic reforms.
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A four-day general strike over rising fuel prices has begun in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s largest oil producer. The largest trade union grouping in the country, the Nigerian Labour Congress, said more strikes will
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SHELL has been hit by an Â£840 million compensation claim from the Nigerian government only 24 hours after being fined in Britain and the United States.
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Smoking could be even worse for your health if you buy smuggled cigarettes from street-corner dealers, the government said yesterday.
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Lagos - Nigerian unions began a four-day general strike on Monday in protest at rising fuel prices, launching their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo and his programme of economic reforms.
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The African Union can quickly mobilize up to 5,000 troops to help end the looting and killing in western Sudan, but it needs hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy the force and so far it's received just &#36;20 million, says Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Nigerian police say at least 26 people have been killed after thieves set alight a fuel pipeline in the commercial capital Lagos. The fire around the pipeline, which belongs to state energy
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A four-day strike against fuel price rises in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, begins.
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Nigeria's government cuts the price of fuel in a bid to avert a planned general strike by the country's biggest unions.
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Saudi Arabia warns it will sue global tobacco firms unless they pay the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses.
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The government is launching a campaign to highlight the forthcoming rise in the legal minimum age at which tobacco can be bought in England and Wales.
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Nigeria has paid the pensions of the former leader of the Biafran secessionist force and 63 rebels as part of efforts to heal wounds from the bloody civil war 40 year ago, officials said Tuesday.
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Soaring fuel prices have prompted Nigeria&#39;s main union to plan a Nov. 16 strike against the Royal Dutch-Shell group, the BBC reported Monday.