The National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has raided a three storey uncompleted building at Azagba Ogwashi near Issele-Azagba, Aniocha South LGA in Delta where illicit drugs and injectables vials are produced. The uncompleted building which belongs to a notorious fake drug dealer, Ekene Igwe Emmanuel, serves as ...
•Peter Obi Labour Party 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has slammed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) for demanding ₦700,000 from shop owners to reopen their businesses at the Onitsha Head Bridge Market. Obi’s reaction follows a viral video by social media commentator VeryDarkMan (VDM), who accus...
NAFDAC operatives on duty The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued a public alert warning Nigerians about the circulation of a counterfeit batch of Artemether/Lumefantrine tablets, falsely branded as Aflotin 20/120, in the Nigerian market. According to the agency on its official X account, the discov...
•NAFDAC Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is increasing efforts to block the entry of substandard and counterfeit products into Nigeria, particularly from China and India, the country’s two largest pharmaceutical trade partners. At a stakeholders’ meeting yesterday...
•NAFDAC operatives The leadership of Onitsha Bridgehead Drug Market in Onitsha, Anambra State, popularly known as Ogbo-Ogwu, has dissociated itself from the recent protest staged by some traders of the market against the continuous closure of their shops by the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control. Some traders under the b...
The National Agency For Food Administration And Control (NAFDAC) today destroyed the largest amount of fake, expired and adulterated drugs worth over one trillion Naira in Awka, capital of Anambra State. Director of the agency in the South East and coordinator of operations in the South East Dr. Martins Iluyomade who represented the Director-G...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has concluded enforcement operations across three major markets in Nigeria, leading to the evacuation of 100 truckloads of substandard, falsified, expired, and banned medicines, including narcotics. The targeted raids were carried out in Idumota (Lagos), Onitsha (Anambra...
Three major assorted raw food warehouses have been shut down in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti capital, by the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). This is contained in a statement by the NAFDAC State Coordinator, Mrs Stella Dosumu today in Ado-Ekiti. Dosumu said the warehouses were closed over varied degrees of infraction...
•NAFDAC DG, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has blacklisted a popular pharmacy, AVEO Pharmaceuticals Pvt Limited, for its involvement in the production and illegal exportation of tapentadol to countries in West Africa, including Nigeria. The pharmaceutical firm was also implicate...
•NAFDAC DG, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Wednesday, said it seized 87 truckloads of banned, expired and substandard medicinal products, including USAID and UNFPA-donated antiretroviral drugs, male and female condoms, among others. This followed a crackdown on the illicit drug trade t...
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