Health
Over 50% of certificates for imported pharmaceutical products are fake — NAFDAC
The National Agency For Drug and Food Administration Control (NAFDAC) has said over 50 percent of certificates of pharmaceutical products (CPP) of medicines imported into Nigeria are fake.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this at the stakeholders’ engagement meeting with regulators, policymakers, and law enforcement agencies on Monday, February 5, in Abuja.
We have a scheme where before medicines that were approved leave that part of the world, we do pre-shipment testing, and that comes with CPP to assure us of quality, but that is not the case, because through our scheme we have been able to stop over 140 products that were approved from coming in.
We found out that more than 50 per cent of the CPPs that come into our country are fake. Part of the responsibility is our people that go to China or India and we are going to deal with it. It’s a Member States issue, and we are going to deal with it.
-
Latest1 week agoLagos NURTW organising secretary Toba Ajiboye dies after gunmen attack
-
Business5 days agoCBN targets $12bn annual Diaspora inflows to boost FX liquidity
-
Business1 week agoNCC unveils cost-sharing framework to boost broadband rollout, end repeated road excavations
-
Business5 days agoSEC launches nationwide campaign to help investors recover unclaimed dividends
-
Business3 days agoNigerian AI researcher champions ethical artificial intelligence at COPA AI 2026 summit in Wales
-
Latest7 days agoOyo APC berates Makinde over call for UN probe into Oriire school rescue
-
Business5 days agoCBN launches real-time FX tracker for BDCs, tightens oversight of FX market
-
Business4 days agoFood prices now biggest threat to inflation, beyond CBN’s reach – Analysts