Tag: Mojisola Adeyeye

NAFDAC Seeks Death Penalty For Fake Drug Dealers

Ganiyu Amodu

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has proposed the death penalty for drug peddlers. The Director-General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, made this call on Friday while speaking during Channels Television’s The Morning Brief. She argued that only strict penalties would deter drug peddlers, especially when their actions result in the deaths of children. “Somebody bought children’s medicine for about N13,000, while another person was selling it for around N3,000 in the same mall. “That raised an alarm. Guess what? When we tested the medicine in…

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Nigeria raises Red Flag as Imported Substandard ‘Ponmo’ floods market

Precious Ibekwe

  How we arrested Two in Rivers with truckloads of stinking, adulterated ‘ponmo’ from Madagascar – Police Agency in charge of consumables in Nigeria, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has, again, warned Nigerians to exercise caution when buying animal hides, popularly known in the country as Ponmo. Ponmo a stable ‘protein’ for the poor is also consumed as one of the key soup ingredients by the rich. This came as the Rivers State government has handed two persons accompanying a truckload of these substandard animal…

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