•Sachet alcohol The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has dismissed claims that the federal government ordered it to suspend enforcement of the ban on sachet and PET-bottled alcohol. Earlier this month, NAFDAC began implementing the nationwide prohibition on the production and sale of alcohol packaged in sac...
•NAFDAC operatives on duty The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has inaugurated the Rivers State Task Force on “Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods” in the state. A statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, South-South Zone, Cyril Monye, described the inauguration as renewed effo...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has uncovered what it described as “one of the worst counterfeit medicine operations in recent years,” seizing over 10 million doses of fake and banned drugs hidden inside warehouse buildings in Lagos. Briefing journalists in Lagos, NAFDAC’s Director of Investigation and...
•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...
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