Curbing menace of drug use among young people
Sir: In the words of Samuel Johnson, ‘‘the chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.’’ There is an increasing menace…
NAFDAC clears BON Bread maker, cautions public against media alarm
Says No Bromate, No Harmful Substance Found The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has cleared Food & Food Integrated Company Limited, makers of BON Bread,…
Court remands man, 30, over alleged production of fake alcoholic beverages
LongA Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the remand of a 30-year-old man, Chidera Kolins Chukwuka, over his alleged involvement in the production and distribution of counterfeit alcoholic…
Woman jailed for forging NAFDAC certificate of employment to obtain UK visa
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Ikeja, Lagos Special Offences Court has sentenced a woman identified as Remilekun Temitope Balogun-Okedeyi to one year imprisonment with an option of a fine of…
NAFDAC discovered illegal cosmetics warehouse worth ₦3bn in Lagos
Over N3 billion worth of illegal cosmetics has been discovered in a warehouse at the APT Trade Fair Complex in Lagos State. According to the National Agency For Food and…
Watchdog And The Death Row Metaphor
By Segun Adediran The architecture of death row is not built of stone and steel, but of stagnant time. To be on death row is to live in the “After”—dead,…
NAFDAC debunks banning Amoxicillin in Nigeria
A National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has dismissed a claim on social media that it secretly banned the sale and use of Amoxicillin in Nigeria,…
Prioritising Profits Over Health: Reps On NAFDAC’s Endless Wars
By Joachim Eluchukwu SIR: In Nigeria’s cut-throat arena where corporate greed clashes with the fragile shield of public health, a damning pattern continues to emerge: powerful industries repeatedly bulldoze regulations…
Banning sachet alcohol not enough, govt should licence sellers – Lawyer
A legal practitioner, Liborous Oshoma, says banning sachet alcohol in the country is not enough, stressing the need to identify people before buying alcohol. Oshoma made this statement on Tuesday…
NAFDAC caution Nigerians against fake contraceptives
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has warned Nigerians against the sale and distribution of counterfeit Kiss condoms in markets across the country, citing serious public health…