Impose special taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, others - World Bank tells Nigerian govt

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To improve primary healthcare of Nigerians, the World Bank has appealed to the Federal Government to impose special taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and

Shubham Chaudhuri, the World Bank Country Director for Nigeria made the appeal in Abuja during the special National Council on Health meeting organised by the Federal Ministry of Health.

He explained, “The economic rationale for taxing these products is strong if we want to save lives and make a better and healthier Nigeria.”

 

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D world bank continue to exert control on Africa economy by dishing out economic suppressive policy on us bcos they are our major source of collecting loans ,from directing us to remove subsidy to directing us to tax everything and failure to obey leads to loan request rejection

Very good if implemented

Be like world bank Dey mad

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