By Victor Sam
Published: Wednesday, 22 Oct 2008
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control on Tuesday, banned from any further operations in the country, 22 national and Indian companies.
It also blacklisted 40 other brand of drugs from further production and sale within Nigeria, asking people never to buy and consume such drugs.
It said the companies had indulged over time in the forgery of NAFDAC registration numbers and those of other companies to sell their fake and substandard products.
The Director-General of the agency, Prof Dora Akunyili, stated these during a meeting with the new Country Representative of United Nations Children’s Education Fund, Dr. Suomi Sakai, in Abuja.
She said the companies would never be allowed to do business again in Nigeria because ‘they have refused over time to stop the forgery of NAFDAC registration numbers’.
Akunyili said the Indian companies would ‘never be allowed again in Nigeria because despite entreaties, they were hell-bent on producing drugs that would kill millions of Nigerians.’
She said, “NAFDAC has just released a list of additional companies which have indulged in producing and selling fake products to Nigerians.
“They have over the years, forged NAFDAC registration numbers and also copied the registration number of other products to perpetuate their criminal acts.
Henceforth, those companies and drugs would never be allowed to be sold and consumed in Nigeria again and by next week we will begin the mopping up of these drugs and companies.”
The banned Nigerian pharmaceutical companies are Medicare Pharma Limited, Maza-Maza, Lagos; O’Nell Pharma and Healthcare Limited, Baptist Church Street, Lagos; Food and Pharma Limited, Ijora, Lagos; and, Sped Pharmacy Limited, Fegge, Onitsha.
Others are Nexus Pharma Limited, Idumota, Lagos; M/S Sanchuks Global Associates Limited, Onitsha; and, M/S Tmoore Int’l Co. Nig. Limited, Kano.
The India companies banned are Empree Medicament (I) Pvt, Honga; Baader Schullz Laboratory; S.I.R. Pharma Pvt Limited; M/S Europa Biocare P Limited; and Alpa Laboratory Limited.
Meanwhile, the director-general, said on Tuesday in Abuja that more than 100,000 applications were received for less than 1,000 vacancies declared by the agency recently.
Akunyili told the News Agency of Nigeria that the number would not deter the agency from employing qualified professionals that would prosecute the war against fake drugs.
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Published: Wednesday, 22 Oct 2008
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control on Tuesday, banned from any further operations in the country, 22 national and Indian companies.
It also blacklisted 40 other brand of drugs from further production and sale within Nigeria, asking people never to buy and consume such drugs.
It said the companies had indulged over time in the forgery of NAFDAC registration numbers and those of other companies to sell their fake and substandard products.
The Director-General of the agency, Prof Dora Akunyili, stated these during a meeting with the new Country Representative of United Nations Children’s Education Fund, Dr. Suomi Sakai, in Abuja.
She said the companies would never be allowed to do business again in Nigeria because ‘they have refused over time to stop the forgery of NAFDAC registration numbers’.
Akunyili said the Indian companies would ‘never be allowed again in Nigeria because despite entreaties, they were hell-bent on producing drugs that would kill millions of Nigerians.’
She said, “NAFDAC has just released a list of additional companies which have indulged in producing and selling fake products to Nigerians.
“They have over the years, forged NAFDAC registration numbers and also copied the registration number of other products to perpetuate their criminal acts.
Henceforth, those companies and drugs would never be allowed to be sold and consumed in Nigeria again and by next week we will begin the mopping up of these drugs and companies.”
The banned Nigerian pharmaceutical companies are Medicare Pharma Limited, Maza-Maza, Lagos; O’Nell Pharma and Healthcare Limited, Baptist Church Street, Lagos; Food and Pharma Limited, Ijora, Lagos; and, Sped Pharmacy Limited, Fegge, Onitsha.
Others are Nexus Pharma Limited, Idumota, Lagos; M/S Sanchuks Global Associates Limited, Onitsha; and, M/S Tmoore Int’l Co. Nig. Limited, Kano.
The India companies banned are Empree Medicament (I) Pvt, Honga; Baader Schullz Laboratory; S.I.R. Pharma Pvt Limited; M/S Europa Biocare P Limited; and Alpa Laboratory Limited.
Meanwhile, the director-general, said on Tuesday in Abuja that more than 100,000 applications were received for less than 1,000 vacancies declared by the agency recently.
Akunyili told the News Agency of Nigeria that the number would not deter the agency from employing qualified professionals that would prosecute the war against fake drugs.
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