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Nigeria’s sugar tax exposes Tinubu’s painful reform dilemma

Hands preparing tea on a patterned rug with traditional bread and sugar in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo by Muhammad-Taha Ibrahim @Pexels
Hands preparing tea on a patterned rug with traditional bread and sugar in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo by Muhammad-Taha Ibrahim @Pexels
  • Senate backs higher tax on sugary drinks
  • Manufacturers warn of rising costs and job losses

 

ABUJA, NIGERIA – Nigeria’s proposed sugar tax has opened a new front in the country’s difficult reform agenda, pitting public health against jobs, investment, and industrial growth.

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