Only a strong regulatory system will guarantee and accelerate the development, approval, and access of safe and effective quality therapeutic medicines and vaccines in low, medium income countries of the world, the Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye has said. Adeyeye made the assertion while speaking at the hybrid University of …

President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Adeyeye’s renewed term of five years took effect from 1st December. Upon the expiration of Adeyeye’s first tenure on 3rd November, the agency’s Director of Registration and Regulation Affairs, Dr Monica Eimunjeze served as the acting Director-General. …

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye has debunked claims that children in Nigeria were being administered with a vaccine that contains 40 percent mercury. The vaccine was said to have been prescribed by a foreign organisation. A statement by the NAFDAC DG reads: “It has come to our …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has challenged the claim in media reports that it failed to regulate and control the use of pesticides in the country. The reports therefore advocated that the Federal Government set up a new agency to take up those functions. But, in a statement on Tuesday, NAFDAC’s Director General, Prof …

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) will not rest on its oars until it attains the World Health Organisation (WHO) Maturity Level Four certification, which will place pharmaceutical products manufactured in Nigeria in a better pedestal to compete favourably in the global market. At the official commissioning of NAFDAC state office Ilorin, Kwara State on …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has disclosed that it seized tramadol worth over N1.1 trillion from entering the country following intelligence gathered by the agency. NAFDAC also announced that about N1.3 million worth of falsified, banned and counterfeited products were seized during its recent raid. In Abuja on Tuesday, the agency’s Director-General, Prof Mojisola …

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has notified healthcare providers and the public of the death of 66 children in The Gambia following the use of four substandard cough syrups, as reported by World Health Organisation (WHO) last month. The four products are Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians to desist from using unauthorised cosmetics and dangerous chemicals for bleaching of the skin to enhance their beauty. At the two-day retreat by the agency’s Top Management Committee in Lagos over the weekend, the Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye expressed shock in the proliferation of unauthorised …

With the strengthening of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) vaccines produced in Nigeria, including those for COVID-19, they will be of internationally acceptable standard, the Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye has vowed. During an oversight visit to the NAFDAC facilities and COVID-19 laboratory projects in Lagos by the House of Representatives Committee on COVID-19 last …

…. DG reiterates call for stiffer penalty The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has secured judgment of a three-year jail term against a falsified drugs merchant. According to a statement on Sunday by NAFDAC’s Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola, a Federal High Court in Kano presided over by Justice Ibrahim Mark sentenced 41-year-old Innocent Oparah …