 The need for federal government to impose 20% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages has been stressed as Nigerians are facing a significant health threat due to non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. Experts at the end of a one-day regional stakeholders forum on sugar-sweetened beverages organized by the corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa CAPA says the solution may be to implement an effective sugar tax on sugar-sweetened beverages as many countries including Nigeria have already imposed SSB taxes as part of efforts to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks and promote healthy eating. According to WHO, a major action aimed at reducing the consumption of sugars is the taxation of sugary drinks. Just as taxing tobacco helped to reduce tobacco use, taxing sugary drinks can help reduce consumption of sugars. In his keynote address, a public health consultant at University College Hospital in Badder, Nigeria, Dr. Francis Fagboulay, said the average monthly cost of drugs for diabetic patients in the country can be crippling for those who live below the poverty line. These sugar-sweetened beverages are just high in calorie. They don't offer any significant nutrition so they have no nutritive value. Rather, they can constitute a lot of health problems. Research has shown that number one is linked with obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, even some form of cancer. Of course, as dentists, even parents, one of their children, sugar causes dental caries, that is all in your truth. So there's a lot of health implications associated with it, more of the non-communicable diseases. For example, we have a taxation on tobacco, we have on alcohol, then why don't we have something effective on sugar-sweetened beverages? That is a way to go. Executive Director of Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, Kappa Oluwafemia said these is the time for government at all levels to take innovative ways of funding the health sector through tax end from sugar-sweetened beverages. Also part of that global practice is to look at how that money is a diffraction of it for the entire tax is a game plow back to health. I think the message also now leave the health to the education sector, whether it will be a policy, effective policy, then monitoring where parents are going to address not to be giving their children this kind of dream, because over time, that's when this should begin. Check the next 15 years what impact will be on the lives of the children, teenagers, young adults and all of them. Legislation is a key and awareness, need to create awareness, especially younger ones. It's not like we say there should be lebeling, not like alcohol, we tell you this is 10%, this is 7%, this is 15%, this is 40%, lebeling of these products so that people will know placing heavy tax is better than placing a small tax, which they say they can absorb so that they can feel it.