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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actavis, the pharmaceutical company that produces the prescription cough syrup Promethazine Codeine which is used to make the controversial ‘Sizzurp’ drink, has decided to pull the product off the ...

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 ...

In Nigeria, an addictive drug is destroying young lives – codeine cough syrup, a medicine that’s become a street drug. The fact that many young Nigerians have for a long time abused this drug is no ...

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 ...

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has directed the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for 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 ...