NAFDAC – City Business News

September 12, 2025 No Responses

NAFDAC Impounds N1.2b Fake Malaria drugs

THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized 277 cartoons of fake and unregistered Malamal Fort malaria drugs worth over 1.2 billion in Lagos.NAFDAC’s Director of Investigation and Enforcement, Dr Martins Iluyomade, who disclosed this...

August 26, 2025 No Responses

Customs Hands Over Seized Expired Pharmaceutical Products To NAFDAC

The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A (FOU A) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over various expired pharmaceutical products to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)Comptroller of the unit, Mohammed Shuaibu expla...

March 26, 2025 No Responses

Federal Character: Senate Probes NNPC, NAFDAC, NUPRC, Others

The Senate has directed its Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs to conduct a thorough investigation hearing into all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to determine their level of compliance with Sections 14(3) and 14(4) of ...

March 10, 2025 No Responses

NAFDAC Destroys N100b Counterfeit Drugs

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed counterfeit drugs worth N100billion at the Moniya dump site in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State. According to NAFDAC Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, th...

December 22, 2024 No Responses

NAFDAC, Food Manufacturers Harp On Food Safety Culture, Quality

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and members of the Association of Food Beverages and Tobacco Employers (AFBTE) have agreed to collaborate further to ensure that a food safety culture is entrenched in Nigeria.The decisi...

October 8, 2024 No Responses

NAFDAC Workers Begin Indefinite Strike

The Senior Staff Association Of Statutory Corporations And Government-Owned Companies (SSASCGOC), an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has begun an indefinite strike over the fail...

September 18, 2024 No Responses

NAFDAC Shuts Down Cosmetics Factory

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down an illegal factory producing counterfeit cosmetic products at Benue Plaza, Trade Fair Complex in Lagos State. In a post on its X handle on Tuesday, NAFDAC...

September 1, 2024 No Responses

NAFDAC Harps On Exclusive Breastfeeding

The Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has urged nursing mothers to champion optimal breastfeeding of their children with a view to improving the health status of their newborns and l...

August 23, 2024 No Responses

NAFDAC Impounds Petrol Tankers For ‘Transporting Vegetable Oil’

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized three petrol tankers used to convey edible vegetable oil in Lagos State. In a post on X on Wednesday, the agency said the oil had reportedly been...

March 24, 2024 No Responses

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August 8, 2023 No Responses

NAFDAC Gazettes Two Regulations On Fat, Oil

THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the body has gazette the reviewed Fats, Oil and Food containing Fats and Oil Regulation 2022, in a bid to safeguard the health of Nigerians. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye...

May 1, 2023 No Responses

NAFDAC Probes Indomie Noodles

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDC) has commenced investigation and is responding to the news of recalled Indomie noodles by Taiwan and Malaysia authorities. A statement issued on Monday explained that on May 2,20...

April 27, 2023 No Responses

NAFDAC Alerts Nigerians On Killer Cough Syrup

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday in Abuja alerted Nigerians about a killer cough syrup, NATURCOLD. Its Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, stated that the cough syrup already caused the deat...

April 18, 2023 No Responses

NAFDAC Approves R21 Malaria Vaccine

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control(NAFDAC) has granted approval to Serum Institute Pvt. Ltd. (SIIPL) R21 malaria vaccine for the treatment of malaria in Nigeria. The Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said this at a news co...