Tag: NAFDAC
Insurgency war: Troops construct own water, bread factories to support soldiers
Troops of 115 Task Force Battalion, Operation Lafiya Dole,
Nigerian Army in Askira-Uba, have constructed bread and sachet water factories
to support soldiers fighting Boko Haram...
Fourth national action plan on ease of doing business takes off
Ime Akpan
The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council
(PEBEC) has commenced the fourth 60-day National Action Plan (NAP 4.0) on Ease
of Doing Business (EoDB).
The minister...
How fruits ripened with carbide kill Nigerians -Report
For the family of the late Emmanuel Okwuke, banana and
plantain have become forbidden fruits. No member of the family dares bring them
home. This was...
NAFDAC searches markets for drugs made from human flesh
The director general of the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Moji Christianah Adeyeye has alerted the agency’s ports inspection...
Customs destroys Tramadol, expired drugs worth N102.4m
In a determined effort to rid the country of dangerous and illicit drugs, the Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), in Badagry,...
Stakeholders clamour for return of SON to seaports
Steve Babafemi
The absence of the personnel of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) at Nigerian seaports to check containers bringing goods into Nigeria has...
Codeine crisis: Emzor provides police detail on absconded worker
The group managing director and chief executive officer of Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, Dr. Stella Okoli has said that the company had submitted to...
NAFDAC reopens Emzor, 2 others, embargoes codeine production
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) yesterday lifted the shutdown order on three companies which were closed on May...
NAFDAC shuts down Emzor two others over codeine syrup crisis
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control has shut down Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Limited, Bioraj Pharmaceutical Limited and Emzor Pharmaceuticals Industries...
Codeine and the criminal enterprise
Olusgun Adeniyi
In my column titled “Catalogue of Made-in-Nigeria tragedies” published on 17th September 2015, I listed a myriad of issues which depict a near...