The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed a factory and eight shops in Nasarawa State for packaging, selling, and distributing counterfeit rice. Acting on an intelligence report, the agency’s Investigation and Enforcement Taskforce uncovered an operation on Thursday on Thursday involving fake rice products worth an estimate. The factory, […]
A staggering 179 million Nigerians, representing 87% of the population, are living in unhygienic and unclean environments, according to the recently released STONE 2024 report. The report was unveiled during the ‘STONE 2024 Unplugged’ event organized by Clean-Up Nigeria in Abuja. In a statement received by Vanguard on Friday, Prince Ene Baba Owoh, Jr., National […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down 150 shops at Eziukwu Market, Aba, Abia State, during a two-day operation on December 16 and 17, 2024. The Agency disclosed this in a statement it posted on its X handle on Wednesday. It said its team uncovered large-scale production and […]
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted the public to the sales and distribution of counterfeit Paludex tablets and suspensions across Nigeria. In a statement on its X handle (formerly twitter), NAFDAC said that the Paludex Artemether/Lumefantrine tablets (80mg/480mg), were manufactured by Impact Pharmaceutical Ltd, No. 33A/33B Standard Industrial […]
Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999 only for the remaining one to fail several years later as a result of pregnancy complications. The 53-year-old from Alabama has now become the latest recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney — and is currently the only living person with an animal organ transplant — […]
The National Health Facility Survey 2023 carried out by the National Bureau of Statistics said the national percentage of facilities providing diabetes services was 13.9 per cent, while that of those with National Diabetes Guidelines stood at 3.8 per cent. The figures highlight the gap between service provision and guideline adherence in diabetes care across […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Saturday denied claims that it approved the use of Lung Detox Tea, alleged to promote smoking. In a statement signed and released by its Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, and posted on its X (formerly Twitter) handle, the agency clarified that the application for the […]
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye on Thursday said the Managing Director of the suspected substandard Deekins Amoxycillin 500mg capsule, Divine Kings Pharmaceutical Limited, Kingsley Ekeanyanwu, is in police custody. Adeyeye who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja, also noted that the […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Wednesday seized alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and pet bottles below 200ml in Delta. The Deputy Director and State Coordinator of the agency, Jude Ndekile, said after the operation that the sale of alcoholic beverages in sachets and PET bottles below 200ml remains banned. […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has announced a recall of one batch of Deekins Amoxycillin 500mg Capsules. This was made known in a statement shared by the Agency on X(formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. The affected batch, with lot number 4C639001, was manufactured by Eco-med Pharma Ltd and marketed by DevineKings […]
