The challenges of drug abuse have continued to have alarming and damaging consequences on the general health and social life of the individual, family and indeed the society at large. The multifaceted scourge and danger of drug abuse cannot be quantified, and therefore quite worrisome to all, hence requires taclkingContinue Reading
Abuja, Dec. 11, 2019(FLOWERBUDNEWS) The Federal Executive Council(FEC) has approved N307.6 million for the purchase of operational vehicles for the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control(NAFDAC). Minister of State for Health, Adeleke Mamora, briefed State House correspondents after FEC meeting, presided by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo onContinue Reading
The CDS group in company of NAFDAC officers visited Mile 1 Rail line market and Slaughter market Rumuokoro, where they enlightened market women and traders against the use of potassium carbide in ripening fruits, drug abuse, use of hard drugs, adding of azo dye in palm oil etc. The NYSCContinue Reading
Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Monday said that the agency was considering recruiting staff to fill up vacant positions in 2020. Adeyeye told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Abuja that the recruitment became necessary becauseContinue Reading
Abuja, Jan. 7, 2020 (Flowerbudnews.ng) The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it is committed to safeguarding the health of Nigerians through proper monitoring of sales of drugs in the markets. Its Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made the assertion in an interview with the NewsContinue Reading
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has called on herbal medicine dealers in Yobe, to obtain product registration with the agency to safeguard public health. The State Controller of the agency, Mr Lawan Dadingelma, made the call in an interview, on Friday in Damaturu. Dadingelma disclosedContinue Reading
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has been informed by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a recall of 25 drugs by basic reset and biogenyx of Hendersonville, Tennessee due to consent decree for federal violations and unlawfully distribution of dietary supplements that areContinue Reading
Abuja, Feb. 27, 2020 (flowerbudnews) The Chairman, NAFDAC Governing Council, Mr Inuwa Abdul-Kadir, has urged delegates to the African Medicine Quality Forum (AMQF) to come up with regulations that would tackle the menace of substandard medicines in African continent. Abdul-Kadir, who made the remarks on the third day of theContinue Reading
Abuja, Feb. 28, 2020 FLOWERBUDNEWS The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it is committed to the coordinated wholesale centres for effective distribution of pharmaceuticals in the country. Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director General of the agency, said this in a statement issued on FridayContinue Reading
