Three pharmaceutical companies implicated in the BBC investigation on illegal manufacture and distribution of codeine-containing syrup have been shut down by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). The three companies are Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Limited, Adewole Industrial Estate, Lubcon Avenue, Ilorin, Kwara State; Bioraj Pharmaceutical Limited, Kaima Road, Ilorin and […]
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The Federal Ministry of Health has banned the production and importation of codeine as active pharmaceutical ingredient for cough preparations to check substance abuse among Nigerians. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made the decision known in a statement issued by Mr Olajide Oshundun, Assistant Director of Information in the ministry, in Abuja on […]
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The Katsina Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), it had arrested six suspected drug peddlers and impounded a trailer loaded with 24,000 bottles of codeine syrup. Maryam Sani, the state commander, who disclosed this on Tuesday, said the arrest was made at a warehouse in Dutsenreme area of Funtua and where the consignment was […]
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