** NAFDAC joins the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, nutrition partners, and the rest of the world in celebrating World Breastfeeding Week 2024 from 1st to 7th August. The theme for this year is ' Closing the gap: Breastfeeding Support for All'. Let us all join hands to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding. Happy World Breastfeeding Week! ** Customer Service Lines: For Enquiries call 0700-1-NAFDAC (0700-1-623322), For Complaints call 0800-1-NAFDAC (0800-1-6 ** Customer Service Lines: For Enquiries call 0700-1-NAFDAC (0700-1-623322), For Complaints call 0800-1-NAFDAC (0800-1-6 ** Customer Service Lines: For Enquiries call 0700-1-NAFDAC (0700-1-623322), For Complaints call 0800-1-NAFDAC (0800-1-6
** NAFDAC joins the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, nutrition partners, and the rest of the world in celebrating World Breastfeeding Week 2024 from 1st to 7th August. The theme for this year is ' Closing the gap: Breastfeeding Support for All'. Let us all join hands to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding. Happy World Breastfeeding Week! ** Customer Service Lines: For Enquiries call 0700-1-NAFDAC (0700-1-623322), For Complaints call 0800-1-NAFDAC (0800-1-6 ** Customer Service Lines: For Enquiries call 0700-1-NAFDAC (0700-1-623322), For Complaints call 0800-1-NAFDAC (0800-1-6 ** Customer Service Lines: For Enquiries call 0700-1-NAFDAC (0700-1-623322), For Complaints call 0800-1-NAFDAC (0800-1-6

Sustainable Healthcare Development: Workshop on Local Manufacturing of APIs and Excipients

About Workshop: Currently, all Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient’s (APIs) and excipients used within our local manufacturing space for pharmaceutical products are being sourced abroad, there has been no local manufacturing of the API’s required for the manufacture of the various finished pharmaceutical products being manufactured in Nigeria. This is why The National Agency for Food and […]

Press Briefing On Reported Decline In Pharmaceutical Imports Into Nigeria

The attention of the Management of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has been drawn to publications in online tabloid, specifically the Business Day edition of 24th August 2023 titled “Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical Import drop 63% in Two Years”. While the write up quoted this data from the International Trade Center, a […]

Illegal Importation, Sales and Distribution of Crusader Soaps Containing Mercury in Nigeria

Protocols: It is my pleasure to welcome you all to this Press briefing. In the course of its regulatory activities, the investigation and enforcement (I&E) Directorate of NAFDAC has discovered a syndicate that specializes in importing banned Crusader soaps containing Mercury. The syndicate uses forged customs documents to import the product into the country. Further […]

Press Briefing: Re-NAFFDAC approves GLUCOZIL, AAU’s herbal medicine for diabetes

The Agency’s attention has been drawn to a publication on August 24th, 2023, circulating in many print and online media which claims that a Listed Local Herbal Medicine “Glucozil” produced by Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma was approved by NAFDAC for the treatment and cure of Diabetes Mellitus and capable of treating Benign prostatic hyperplasia (Prostrate […]

Press Briefing On Reported Decline In Pharmaceutical Imports Into Nigeria

, The attention of the Management of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has been drawn to publications in online tabloid, specifically the Business Day edition of 24th August 2023 titled “Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical Import drop 63% in Two Years”. While the write up quoted this data from the International Trade […]

Public Alert No. 30/2023 – Alert on Four Products found to Contain Potent Medicinal Ingredients Including Steroids and Banned Substances

, The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is notifying the public of a press release by Health Sciences Authority (HSA) Singapore, on four products found to contain potent medicinal ingredients including steroids and banned substances. The implicated potent medicinal ingredients are not allowed in the affected products and may cause […]