Nigeria: How corporations hook Nigerians on unhealthy foods,

A new report has exposed how food corporations use a sophisticated web of marketing strategies to lure Nigerians—especially children and young adults—into consuming ultra-processed foods that damage their health, undermine public health policies, and cost the Nigerian healthcare system billions.

The report, Junk on Our Plates: Exposing Deceptive Marketing of Unhealthy Foods Across Seven States in Nigeria, was unveiled on Wednesday in Lagos by the pan-African non-governmental…