By Aderogba George The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has assured consumers of the safety of all brands of Indomie Noodles produced in the country. This was made known in a statement released by the agency resident media consultant of the agency, Mr Olusayo Akintola, in AbujaContinue Reading
By Aderogba George The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Wednesday burst Baban Aisha (a Local herbs producer) production factory in Tarfa community, along Kaduna-Abuja road. NAFDAC investigation and enforcement unit which carried out the operation along with its Kaduna state office, stated that theContinue Reading
By Dorcas Elusogbon A dietician, Dr Salami Akorede, has called on NAFDAC to regulate the mode of processing cow hide into “ponmo’’ for human consumption. Akorede is the Director, Dietetics Department at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Ile-Ife onContinue Reading
By Aderogba George The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has reached out to pre-shipment inspection agents at Nigerian ports on the need for them to collaborate with a view to ensuring that export-bound foods are not rejected abroad. The collaboration move was contained in aContinue Reading
By Isaiah Eka The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised Nigerians not to consume fruits ripened with calcium carbide to avoid health complications. The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning in her keynote address during the South-South Zone media sensitisationContinue Reading
By Funmilayo Adeyemi Prof. Idris Bugaje, the Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), has commended President Bola Tinubu for making Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) as the fourth pillar in the policy document of his administration. He said that this was a reflection of Tinubu’s commitment toContinue Reading
By Mustapha Yauri Hajiya Binta Zubairu, Justice of the Court of Appeal (JCA) on Sunday in Zaria said judges are not the cause of delay in the dispensation of justice as erroneously believed by some Nigerians. Zubairu made this known on the sidelines of a reception organised in her honourContinue Reading
By Ezra Musa The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday, commenced the distribution of relief materials to 8,757 households affected by the 2022 flood disaster in Kaduna State. The Director-General of the agency, Mr Mustapha Ahmed, said during the distribution in Kaduna that the gesture was under the SpecialContinue Reading
By Ibironke Ariyo The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted four tons of illicit and controlled drugs in seven states within one week, its Spokesman, Femi Babafemi, has said. The drugs include nitrous oxide popularly known as laughing gas, skunk, codeine syrup, methamphetamine and tramadol, he added inContinue Reading
