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Drugs

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Health

Drugs : FG Introduces Nat’l Electronic Pharmacy Policy

The federal government has launched a new policy known as National Electronic Pharmacy Policy, to regulate sales of medicines online. At the launch in Abuja, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Ali Pate said it is historic to modernize healthcare through digital platforms in line with global best practices. Professor Pate, who was represented by the Director Food and Drugs in the Ministry, Dr. Olubumi Aribiana said […]

todayDecember 23, 2025

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Africa

Rwanda Recalls Kenyan Drug Over Safety Concerns

Health authorities in Rwanda have recalled batches of antifungal tablets from Kenya over safety concerns. In a statement, the Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (RFDA) instructed importers to return all batches of Fluconazole 200mg tablets which are manufactured by a Kenyan company. It also ordered all retailers and health facilities to stop the distribution of the drugs and return them to the suppliers. This followed an earlier notification from the […]

todayJanuary 4, 2024

Health Insurance: NHIA, NAFDAC Approve Logo For Branded Drugs
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Health

Health Insurance: NHIA, NAFDAC Approve Logo For Branded Drugs

A logo has been approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the National Health Insurance Authority, NHIA for the branded health insurance drugs, which are billed to be available designated NHIA partnering hospitals next month. >The logo which is like a fan shape has the NHIA colours for easy identification, and NHIA has chosen seven states (Delta, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Niger, Osun, and […]

todayOctober 12, 2023

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Entertainment

Substance Abuse: Music Industry Glamourizes Drugs – Lagos Police

The spokesperson of the Lagos state Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has said that the prevalence of substance abuse in the music industry has made the work of policing more difficult as the industry has consistently glamorized drug use over the years. The police spokesperson made this assertion at the 2023 Press Week Lecture/Symposium, organized by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), in partnership with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), […]

todaySeptember 29, 2023

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General

NDLEA Intercepts Tons Of Laughing Gas, Other Hard Drugs

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA says it has arrested no fewer than 13 suspects with four tons of illicit and controlled drugs including consignments of nitrous oxide popularly known as laughing gas, skunk, codeine syrup, methamphetamine, and tramadol in seven states within one week. NDLEA in a statement by the aagency'sDirector Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi says between Monday and Wednesday, busted some forests in Ijesha Isu-Ekiti, Ikole […]

todaySeptember 25, 2023

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CSOs Advocate More Licence To Pharmaceutical Companies

Civil Society Organisations in the Federal Capital Territory have called on Gilead and other pharmaceutical organizations to allow developing countries have access to lifesaving drugs as well as give open license to generic production of HIV and hepatitis C drugs. They made the call at an advocacy forum organized by AIDS Health Care Foundation in Abuja. The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Network of Religious Leaders Living with HIV/AIDS (NINERELA) Amber Erinunwinhe […]

todayJune 23, 2023

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General

NDLEA Declares War Against Illicit Drugs

No fewer than Thirty one thousand arrests have been made with over Six Point Three Million Kilograms of Assorted drugs seized and over Five thousand offenders prosecuted in the last two years by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The Chairman of NDLEA, Retired Brigadier General Buba Marwa stated this in Abuja at a Forum organized to commemorate the 2023 International Day against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking. […]

todayJune 21, 2023