Nigeria, Nov. 25 -- The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has urged the Nigerian government to gazette the National Tobacco Control Regulations 2019 to enable the immediate enforcement of its provisions.

Akinbode Oluwafemi, deputy director, ERA/FoEN, said at a press conference in Lagos Monday that although some of the provisions fall below the expectations of tobacco control advocates, the Regulations has strong provisions to discourage smoking and protection of non-smokers.

"We believe strongly that the delay in the gazette of the NTC Regulations 2019 is being exploited by tobacco multinationals to entrench their hold on the Nigerian market."

Nigeria's tobacco control legislation came into existence in 2015, sig...