•Alcohol in sachets Director-General of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Segun Ajayi-Kadir, has expressed shock and concern over the recent directive issued by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to outrightly ban the production and sale of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and small P...
•Alcohol in sachets The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) will begin the enforcement of the ban on the production and sale of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and small bottles below 200ml by next month, December 2025. NAFDAC Director General, Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the directive during a press briefi...
•NAFDAC operatives during the operation in Lagos The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued a public alert over the circulation of a suspected substandard and falsified antibiotic, BETACLOX (Ampicillin 250mg and Cloxacillin 250mg), discovered within Nigeria’s drug supply chain. According to a statement...
•Sachet alcohol and Nigerian Senate The Senate has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and other relevant regulatory bodies to strictly enforce the ban on the packaging of high-strength alcoholic beverages in sachet formats beginning next month, December 2025. The lawmakers further resolved that n...
•NAFDAC boss, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye Nigeria’s reliance on imported medicines has declined from 70 to 60 per cent, the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, announced yesterday at the 2025 Investiture and Public Lecture of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy. Speak...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed two Chinese-run supermarkets in Jabi District and eight cosmetics shops in Wuse Market, Abuja, for distributing unregistered and mislabeled products. Led by Mr. Musa Embugushiki under the guidance of Director-General Prof. Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, the ope...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) sealed a chemical and water packaging factory in the Damangaza district, Apo Waru, in the Federal Capital Territory today. Mr. Embugushiki Godiya, Head of NAFDAC’s Investigation and Enforcement unit in Abuja, said the factories were sealed following their illegal operati...
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over three trucks loaded with expired pharmaceutical products valued at N3.8 billion to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). The handover took place yesterday at the Customs warehouse in Ikeja, Lagos, reports The Guard...
•Counterfeit Cowbell 12g sachet milk The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control today raised the alarm over the presence of counterfeit Cowbell “Our Milk” 12g sachet milk circulating in Nigeria. The alert posted on the agency’s website stated that Promasidor Nigeria Ltd, which is the marketing authorisation holder and ma...
An official of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Martins Iluyomade, said fake drugs have killed more Nigerians than Boko Haram. Iluyomade, NAFDAC’s Director of Investigation and Enforcement, said this on Tuesday, following the agency’s five-day operation where over 10,000 cartons of unregistered tom...
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