rendezvous

Olanrewaju Onigbogi about the creation of the African Tobacco Control Regional Initiative (ATCRI)

Rendez-vous 175 - November 27 2008

May I ask you to introduce yourself by telling us a little about your personal background (education, professional experience) and when, how and why you got involved in tobacco control?

Olanrewaju (Lanre) Onigboji: I am Olanrewaju Onigbogi. I have a medical background with postgraduate training in public health. I am currently the Director of the African Tobacco Control Regional Initiative (ATCRI).  I worked as a researcher and public health physician at the University College Hospital before I was appointed as ATCRI Director. The initiative is a multilateral effort to stem the emerging tobacco epidemic on the continent.

Akinbode Oluwafemi, Environmental Rights Action's Manager In Lagos, Nigeria

Rendez-vous 166 - May 7, 2007
Thank you Bode for taking the time to answer my questions. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Akinbode Oluwafemi: My name is Akinbode Oluwafemi. I am the Programme Manager of Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Nigeria's foremost environmental campaign group. For over seven years, I have been involved in tobacco control activities both at the national and international levels.

Q1. I just read about ERA filing a lawsuit with the Lagos State government against BAT, Philip Morris International and the Tobacco Institute for "negligence, public nuisance, liability, conspiracy to commit actionable wrongs" and asking for $21 billion in compensation.

Eze Eluchie

Rendez-vous 143
November 20, 2002

about tobacco control in Nigeria
Eze is Attorney at law, Executive Director of PADDING, People against drug dependence and ignorance
Lagos, Nigeria

This rendez-vous took place during the 2002 national tobacco control conference in San Francisco. I want to thank the press service of the conference and the San Francisco Tobacco Free project that made it possible.

Thank you Eze for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Eze Eluchie: I am an attorney at law in Lagos, Nigeria. My involvement with tobacco control started after my office had been burglarized for the third time. On the last occurrence one of the burglars was arrested while reselling my typewriter for a very small amount of money: he was a drug addict and that started my interest into the questions of substance abuse.