Tag: Survey

Inflation: Beecham Ampiclox jumps from N750 to N9,000; Augmentin N4,000 to N26,000; Paracetamol N40 to N150 – SBM Survey

Aminu Imam

A new survey has revealed that the economic hardship assailing Nigerians under President Bola Tinubu has continued to cause incessant hikes in the prices of drugs for malaria and other common conditions.  The survey conducted by SBM Intelligence, titled: ‘Paying the Price on Health’, compared the prices of pharmaceutical products back in 2019 with their prices as of November 20, 2023. Amid unfavourable economic circumstances in the country, British multinational pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, in August 2023, announced plans to cease operations in the country after 51 years. Sanofi, another global…

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API survey scores Nigeria Social Cohesion Index ‘low’

Aminu Imam

A non-profit organisation, Africa Polling Institute, (API), has scored the Nigeria Social Cohesion Index, NSCI, 39.6 percent with the Nigeria Social Cohesion Survey #SCS2022. The Institute’s Executive Director, Prof. Bell Ihua, who disclosed this on Thursday, said the API made the survey on the heels of two past editions (2019 and 2021) to compute the Nigeria Social Cohesion Index and measure citizens’ perception on the state of social cohesion. According to the report, this score remains below the average of 50%, and represents a 4.6% decline from the 2021 index…

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