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Covid Vaccine: Lagos Calls For Strict Adherence To Covid Protocols

Ayomide Oyewole 22/03/2021

…Says Only Eligible Persons for Phase One will be attended to As COVID vaccination exercise resumes tomorrow March 22, 2021 at the 88 approved vaccination sites across Lagos after the weekend break, the State Government is urging eligible persons who fit into the first phase of the vaccination exercise to observe and ensure strict adherence […]Read More

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AstraZeneca Vaccine has no Side Effect –NAFDAC DG

Ayomide Oyewole 12/03/2021

Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, says the Astrazeneca vaccine recently inaugurated and distributed to states to treat COVID-19 has no side effect. Adeyeye, who stated this on Thursday in Abuja, shortly after she got vaccinated, said that NAFDAC went through the application dossier of […]Read More

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NAFDAC Receives Dossiers For Chinese Vaccine, Others For Evaluation –

Ayomide Oyewole 16/02/2021

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has received dossiers for the Chinese vaccine and three others for evaluation amid the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic in the country. This is according to the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, who addressed reporters in Abuja on Monday during a briefing by the Presidential Task […]Read More

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FG Turns to Russia, India for COVID-19 Vaccines

Ayomide Oyewole 02/02/2021

Nigeria has extended its search for COVID-19 vaccines to Russia and India in a bid to get enough supplies to meet its target of vaccinating 40 per cent of its population by the end of 2021. The federal government said it has obtained vaccine samples from Russia and India for testing by the National Agency […]Read More

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NAFDAC Blacklists Indian Company For Manufacturing Falsified Medicines

Tolani Giwa 27/10/2020

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has blacklisted Mars Remedies PVT Limited, India, for manufacturing falsified medicine for a pharmaceutical company in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement signed by the agency’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye on Tuesday in Abuja. The Director-General said that the agency also […]Read More

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FG stops alcohol in Sachets, Polythene

LTV 14/09/2020

The Federal Government will soon phase out high concentration of alcohol in sachet and small Polyethylene Terephthalate and glass bottles in the country. Director-General of the National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye indicated this in a statement over the weekend. She said: “NAFDAC under the auspices of the Federal […]Read More

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NAFDAC Ready To Work With Scientists On COVID-19 Drugs, Vaccines

Tolani Giwa 24/06/2020

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) will collaborate with indigenous scientists in the development of drugs or vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC Director-General, said the agency’s interventions would allow for documentation of such initiatives for global recording as potential vaccines or drugs […]Read More

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NAFDAC, NIAS Seek Food Chain Safety Through Animal Feed

Ayomide Oyewole 16/04/2019

Stakeholders in the food sector have called for safer food for animals as the well being of man depends directly on animal health and the environment. The stakeholders noted that animals raised in confinement and fed defined feeds containing ingredients ranging from rendered animal products and animal waste to antibiotics could expose consumers to unacceptable […]Read More

FG to partner Indian, China to halt shipment of Tramadol

Ayomide Oyewole 07/12/2018

The Federal Government says it is planning partnership with China and India to halt the continued shipment of banned drugs from their countries to Nigeria. Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Christiana Adeyeye, disclosed this during the flag off of a Youth Against Drug Abuse (YADA) Awareness […]Read More

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Most of NAFDAC’s Equipment Not Working.

Ayomide Oyewole 14/11/2018

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has said that 80 per cent of the equipment belonging to the agency has not been working. Adeyeye made the statement on Monday in Lagos while receiving members of the Senate Committee on Health who were on a tour […]Read More