The Director-General of the Agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Adeyeye said the decision was taken following findings from investigations and inspections at the affected companies.
The statement said, “Due to insufficient evidence gathered and apparent resistance to provide needed documents during our inspection on May 2, 2018, at the respective companies in Ilorin and Lagos, respectively, it has become necessary to shut down all the product lines of the three companies – Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Limited, plots 3 & 8, Adewole Industrial Estate, Lubcon Avenue, Ilorin, Kwara State; Bioraj Pharmaceutical Limited, 405 Kaima Road, Ilorin, Kwara State and Emzor Pharmaceuticals Ind. Ltd., Ajao Estate, Lagos. This is to allow for a full and comprehensive investigation. The three companies, therefore, remain closed.”
From Daily Post
Very good
ReplyDeletePharmaceuticals keep on taking advantage if the weak regulatory laws in Nigeria
They do not control their products, and encourage abuse by flooding the market with these opiods
Tramadol and Rephnol should be banned next please Lord.
they want to cause more job loss again. Medicine after death, if BBC did not do that, would they have known, stupid NAFDAC
ReplyDeleteSometimes I wonder if you are normal.
Delete😂😂😂 shoro niyen?
DeleteYori is right on this one anony. If BBC had not featured it, NAFDAC wouldn't have done a thing. After all, this problem started a while ago and why did they do aside collecting bribe?
DeleteAt least first things first
ReplyDeleteWe have problems in this country..
ReplyDeleteWhy seal them up. You stayed aloof of what people had been saying since and just after the broadcast by BBC, everyone is now forming. The problem still lies with open market distribution of drugs. And the govt is still allowing it cos it greases their pockets.
ReplyDeleteSo it's now that this useless Nigerian government is seeking the menace of codeine, when it has killed many youths and rendered many useless. They should this our government should be proactive in doing there jobs and not waiting for some foreign body to help point out issues in our country before we act. It just depicts how incompetent our government is
ReplyDeleteSo Emzor is even among? Wonders shall never end.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the meaning of that? Is codein an illicit drugs. If people start abusing coca cola now will you also go and ban it because people can't control themselves and use drugs according to prescriptions
DeleteDoes Coca-Cola intoxicate?
DeleteWhy can't the government regulate the supply to public. Only doctors should be able to prescribe these medicines and only when needed for analgesia. Imagine women not given analgesia for labour, episiotomy or stitching. Orthopedic patients not given analgesia post surgery but idiots can get tramadol to get high from the local chemists. The government going about it the wrong way, thousands will be out of job with this move. Nigeria which way?
ReplyDeleteThey shouldn't have sealed up Emzor na....the woman has built that brand over the years and it's one of the companies making Nigeria proud...monitoring and regulating them would have been better.
ReplyDeleteMe and my younger one is asthmatic his 9 while I'm 27 and codeine is our only help to be alive till today.if they banned it how can cope....
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to qvar and ventolin inhalers? This is how you kill yourselves with ignorance. You should never use codeine if you have breathing difficulty or asthma because it can slow or stop your breathing.
DeleteIf your doctor is prescribing such for you, then he is digging your grave. Trust me cos am an asmathic as well. You can take ventoline syrup if you can afford inhalers.
There are better options for asthma treatment. Inhaled corticosteriods and long acting beta agonist. Cheap ones at tat for as low as 2k a month. Keeps asthma away. Treats the root cause. Not a cure though but one of the best options out there.
DeleteMe and my younger one is asthmatic his 9 while I'm 27 and codeine is our only help to be alive till today.if they banned it how can cope....
ReplyDeletecodeine is not the only drug people abuse this days,tramadol,even hypo and some unimaginable things.i think proper sensitization need to be carried out and parents should always remember to preach the dangers of drugs and much as there preach absistence
ReplyDeleteSo it's now that this useless Nigerian government is seeking the menace of codeine, when it has killed many youths and rendered many useless. They should this our government should be proactive in doing there jobs and not waiting for some foreign body to help point out issues in our country before we act. It just depicts how incompetent our government is
ReplyDeleteCos BBC did a documentary they decided to do what should have been done years before now. People have been lamenting about the brutality of Sars but they've been quite like they were born dumb. Issokay
ReplyDeletedont know why our country is like this...they cant decide at all,they are just good at following others.
ReplyDeletemc pinky
As if that is the solution,what of cartons of cough syrups that are in the open drug market in Onitsha and idumota,what of tramadol,flunitrazepam(rophynol),diazepam even pentazocine injections that are been abused ...A senior colleague was even telling me cough syrups with codeine,tramadol supply to the north is a way of dealing with northerners by the south easterners(drugs can be used in so many ways)....In a nutshell Nafdac got it so wrong ,that move is not the solution
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