Olorunnimbe Mamora, minister of state for health, says the federal government will not allow other countries turn Nigeria into dumping ground for foreign drugs.Mamora spoke on Wednesday at the 5th Nigeria pharma manufacturers expo 2019, an international exhibition on complete pharma manufacturing in Lagos state.The minister said the country is committed to homegrown drugs, adding that the federal government had seen [...]
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned the sale of Sniper and Dichlorvos (organophosphate used as an insecticide) products in open shops and supermarkets.Moji Adeyeye, director-general of NAFDAC, announced this in a statement on Wednesday.A number of Nigerians had called for the ban of the product following its rampant use in cases of suicide.Adeyeye [...]
The Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) has apologised following the inconveniences the recall of the contaminated Eva bottled water might have caused consumers. The National Agency for Food, Drugs and Administration Control (NAFDAC) had directed the NBC to recall Eva premium table water 75cl over suspected contamination.The agency had said the production of the water was suspended pending the outcome of investigation being conducted [...]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has directed the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited to recall Eva premium table Water 75cl over suspected contamination.The agency disclosed this in a Twitter post on Friday.According to NAFDAC, the production of the water has been suspended pending the outcome of investigation being conducted by the agency.The regulatory agency said [...]
The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has placed a ban on the production of smaller packs of sniper.The agency also said it will soon ban the use of paraquat and atrazine products by farmers.Sniper is an insecticide used to eliminate insects while paraquat and atrazine are chemicals used as herbicide for weed and grass control.Husman [...]
The federal government says it will spend over N1 billion to compensate manufacturers of codeine-containing cough syrup who had their products seized or withdrawn from circulation.Moji Adeyeye, director-general, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), disclosed this on Monday in Lagos.The government had in May 2017 banned the production and importation of codeine and tramadol in the [...]
The Lagos state government has warned consumers against buying some cow hide, known as "ponmo," being sold in some markets in the state.A statement by Adeola Salako, director of public affairs, Lagos ministry of health, said three persons involved in the sale of the "poisonous ponmo" in Ojo and Iba local government areas of the state have been arrested.Salako said [...]
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Chike Okafor, chairman, house of representatives committee on healthcare services, has challenged Mojishola Adeyeye, director-general of National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), to name the members of the committee who demanded bribe from her.Adeyeye had alleged that the committee asked her for bribe in the form of “money for welfare” when they visited her in December, 2017.But reacting in [...]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted the public, especially healthcare providers, on the existence of fake Dukoral oral cholera vaccine circulating in Bangladesh.According to a statement by Moji Adeyeye, the director-general of NAFDAC, the packaging of the falsified Dukoral vaccine displays texts in English and French language.Adeyeye said that the World Health Organisation [...]
Fifteen years ago, he was a young boy pushed to life support and the brink of death by the wicked claws of fake drugs. Today, he is pushing fake drugs out of every continent of the world, and just last month, he won the deepTech Oscars overall prize of €100,000 (N40.43 million) for developing the world's first real-time drug authenticator. [...]
THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has uncovered a cartel responsible for illegal importation of banned drugs estimated at N105 million in a transit warehouse at Ijora, Lagos state on Thursday.In a statement made available to Tribune on Friday, Moji Adeyeye, director-general of NAFDAC, said the warehouse was stocked with 187 cartons of [...]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has lifted the shutdown order on three pharmaceutical companies that were implicated in the illegal manufacture and distribution of codeine-containing syrup.The three companies, Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Limited, Adewole Industrial Estate, Lubcon Avenue, Ilorin, Kwara State; Bioraj Pharmaceutical Limited, Kaima Road, Ilorin and Emzor Pharmaceuticals Industrial Limited, Ajao Estate, Lagos, [...]
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has given some agencies a 24-hour ultimatum to vacate seaports.Among the affected agencies are National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON).According to a statement signed by Abdullahi Goje, general manager, corporate and strategic communications of NPA, the directive is in line with a new order issued to [...]
The head office of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in Abuja recorded a fire outbreak on Friday.Officials of the fire service are trying to put off the inferno.The fire officials broke windows in the bid to gain access to some parts of the building.When TheCable visited the scene at about 8am on Friday, smoke [...]
Medical and health workers union chapter of the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday embarked on an indefinite strike, demanding improved welfare.The union accused the management of failing to implement an agreed welfare package entered in 2013.It also demanded the immediate retirement of Yetunde Oni, the agency’s acting director-general.They asked Oni to hand over to the [...]
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