UK APPROVES SWEEPING LAW TO BAN CIGARETTE SALES FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. (PHOTO).
UK approves sweeping law to ban cigarette sales for future generations The United Kingdom has taken a major step toward eliminating smoking among future generations after lawmakers approved sweeping legislation that bans the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2009. The measure, one of the most aggressive anti-tobacco efforts globally, ensures that today’s children will never be legally sold cigarettes. It also outlaws the sale and supply of herbal smoking products and cigarette papers to the same age group, while introducing a nationwide ban on snus, an oral tobacco product. The law establishes strict enforcement measures, including fines for retailers who fail to verify ages and harsher penalties for repeat violations, with courts given the authority to suspend businesses from selling tobacco or vaping products for up to a year. The legislation significantly expands government oversight of vaping, granting officials the power to...
The EFCC today thursday,June 30,2016,arraigned Lukman Tijani and a company named Al-Mosrur Ventures before Justice Kudirat Jose of Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on a 2 count charge bordering on issuance of dud cheque and stealing.The defendants were charged to court for allegedly issuing a Guarntee Trust Bank Cheque which was dishonoured and also converting to their own personal use monies they stole which is the property of Seyid Alliy Nigeria Limited to the tune of N3 million.When the charges were read to the accused,he pleaded not guilty to the two counts.
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