The over 193 Member-Nations of the World Health Organisation's newly created Mechanism for the international fight against spurious, substandard, and counterfeit medicines have congratulated Nigeria for the selection of the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul Orhii as the first substantive Chair of the Member State Mechanism (MSM).

The war against fake drugs and other substandard regulated products being wagged by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) received a boost recently as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos convicted the manufacturers of My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture that killed 84 children in 2008 to fourteen (14) years imprisonment.

Against the backdrop of the global leadership of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in the fight against counterfeit drugs, Nigeria has been appointed Chair of the International Steering Committee of the new Member State Mechanism (MSM) for  combating Substandard, Spurious, Falsely-Labeled, Falsified and Counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products

Will Ross of BBC’s article online titled “Nigerian texters to take on the drug counterfeiters” caught my attention and I was compelled to quickly respond to save readers from the misinformation, falsehood and junk dished out by the Reporter. Ross’

In a decisive move to rid the States of counterfeit drugs, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Kano State Government have jointly destroyed fake drugs worth N600million.