PPP PLANS IN WATER SECTOR: GROUP ACCUSES LAGOS GOVT. OF LYING

The Our Water Our Right Coalition has described as extremely disturbing, Lagos State government decision to press ahead with Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the water sector even with overwhelming public rejection of the idea and repeated denials on its part. Responding to the stout defence of PPP by the Managing Director of Lagos Water Corporation […]

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180 countries adopt landmark public health decisions: To hold tobacco industry legally liable for tobacco harms

  GREATER NOIDA, INDIA—After one week of heated negotiations and intrigues, governments representing nearly more than 90 percent of the world’s population who attended the seventh session of the World Health Organization’s global tobacco treaty negotiations in New Delhi adopted policies that will protect public health over the narrow interests of the tobacco industry. These […]

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ERA/FoEN to Lagos Speaker: Privatisation not solution to water crisis in Lagos

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Obasa Mudashiru to side with Lagos people in rejecting Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the water sector. ERA/FoEN, in a letter to the Speaker titled PRIVATISATION IS NOT SOLUTION TO LAGOS WATER PROBLEM, frowned at […]

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