The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria have come under pressure over proliferation of counterfeit products as Nigerians take to social media to expose food, drugs, cosmetics and other consumer goods suspected to be fake, substandard and dangerous. The online campaign also brou...
•Sugar The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission today said it has uncovered substandard and unregistered sugar products in Nigerian markets, particularly in the South-West and North-East. FCCPC spokesperson, Ondaje Ijagwu, disclosed this in a statement, saying the fake products are particularly smuggled brands from Brazil, in...
A year after British pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline exited Nigeria and asthmatic patients who depended on its inhalers faced significant distress due to the medication’s scarcity, investigations showed that fake and unregistered inhalers have flooded Nigerian markets, reports Sunday PUNCH. For a 28-year-old marketer, Rose Daniel, having...

