ABUJA – The Federal Government has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the importation of ...

The poppy plant's recipe for building morphine generates other pharmaceutically useful painkillers such as codeine and thebaine along the way, but some of the important biosynthetic enzymes involved ...

The Federal Ministry of Health has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the importation of ...

Products like Gen-payne, Myprodol, and Stopayne all contain small amounts of codeine – typically in combination with other painkillers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen. In recent years, however, the ...

The Congress demands a judicial probe into a huge codeine-based cough syrup scam spanning several regions. They urge ...

The Federal Ministry of Health says it has recalled 2, 405, 724 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup. The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, said this in Abuja, while receiving the final report ...

Nigeria government on Tuesday places restrictions on use and importation of codeine to curtail widespread abuse of the drug, especially by youths across the country. He also directed NAFDAC to stop ...

The pharmaceutical company said it had fully cooperated with the authorities. In a raid by the agency on Monday, May 7, 2018, Emzor, Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Limited and Bioraj Pharmaceutical ...

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has spoken on the reopening of Emzor Pharmaceuticals and two other drug companies. Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and ...

May 1 (UPI) --Nigeria's ministry of health banned the production and importing of codeine-based cough syrup Tuesday after a news investigation found teens were abusing it to get high. The ...

As part of efforts to tackle drug abuse in the country, the Federal Government on Tuesday banned the production of codeine containing syrup in the country. The federal government also banned sales of ...

The Federal Ministry of Health has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the importation of ...