•Sachet alcohol drinks The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has declared that the agency has resumed enforcement of the ban on the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in sachets and small-volume PET or glass bottles (below 200ml). The new move followed...
•CBN headquarters, Abuja The Central Bank of Nigeria has approved the temporary use of expired National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control licenses to importers for import documentation purposes. A circular issued on January 26, 2026, by the apex bank’s Trade and Exchange Department and published on the bank’s website yesterda...
•The protesting union members Members of the Food, Beverages and Tobacco Senior Staff Association and the National Union of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employees have called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to provide empirical evidence showing that sachet alcoholic beverages are being consumed by children, a...
•The recalled Nestle infant formula The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has reassured Nigerians that all Nestlé infant formula products approved for sale in the country are safe, following a voluntary recall announced by Nestlé UK involving specific batches of SMA Infant Formula and Follow-On Formula in over 50 cou...
•The expired and fake drugs In a renewed crackdown on counterfeit and dangerous pharmaceuticals, the leadership of Ogbo-ogwu Drug Market, Bridge Head, Onitsha, Anambra State, has handed over fake and expired drugs valued at over ₦265 million to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). The consignment, which in...
•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...
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