 My health expert have called for an increase in taxes paid on sugar-sweetened beverages from the current 10-naira to 130-naira in order to discourage excessive consumption by members of the public. Addressing the press conference in Lagos, the Executive Director of Corporate Accountability and Public Participation, Afrika Kappa, a Kim Bade Oluwa family disclosed that 99% of illnesses are as a result of excessive consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. For more than two hours, these men of the media profession imaged in this official launch of the research report on sugar-sweetened beverage, SSB Taxi Nigeria, organized by Corporate Accountability and Public Participation, Afrika Kappa. The aim is for them to have firsthand information on the outcome of the research on the potential fiscal and public health effects of sugar-sweetened beverage tasks in Nigeria. According to the group, the report is a comprehensive analysis of the SSB tax, including the potential impact on both the fiscal landscape and public health outcomes in Nigeria. A Kim Bade Oluwa family is the Executive Director of Kappa. Highlighting more on the report, he calls on Nigeria's re-engage in healthy lifestyles by consumers of what is destructive to the body. That tax is not just for government and revenue, it is to protect the Nigerian citizens. It is for public health. The tax is to ensure that there is decrease in the consumption of products that are causing NCDs in Nigeria, products that cause diabetes, high blood pressure, and are also related to the cancers and the rest of them. And so you've got sweet to these attacks that will induce reduction in consumption. In his presentation, a research associate Center for the Studies of Economic of Africa, Fidelis Obanii, course-run effective SSB tax regime. He holds strongly that it will go a long way in reducing consumption of SSB as well as a boarding of non-communicable diseases while generating revenue for public health initiatives. On her part, Okweyemi Ibitui paints a more gloomy picture on the consequences of too much intake of SSB. In Nigeria, living with diabetes, who continues to consume food will not be able to properly take care of his or herself. And that's just one angle. There is a family member that is taking care of that person who begins to lose productive hours, who is an unpaid caregiver, who cannot earn from his or her normal work, and can still not earn from giving care to that person. This is why I say the SSB tax is the triple way, a win for the individual, a win for the government, and a win for public health. According to the report, Nigeria ranks fourth globally in SSB consumption with an annual sale of approximately 38.6 million litres in a market value at $16.87 billion in 2023. Love Ikoku Uyiduku. Plus, TV News.