The Congress demands a judicial probe into a huge codeine-based cough syrup scam spanning several regions. They urge ...

Speaking in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Adityanath highlighted that 78 people have been arrested and raids at 134 ...

The Federal Ministry of Health has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the importation of ...

ABUJA – The Federal Government has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the importation of ...

The Federal Ministry of Health says it has recalled 2, 405, 724 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup. The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, said this in Abuja, while receiving the final report ...

The poppy plant's recipe for building morphine generates other pharmaceutically useful painkillers such as codeine and thebaine along the way, but some of the important biosynthetic enzymes involved ...

Products like Gen-payne, Myprodol, and Stopayne all contain small amounts of codeine – typically in combination with other painkillers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen. In recent years, however, the ...

In Nigeria, an addictive drug is destroying young lives – codeine cough syrup, a medicine that’s become a street drug. The fact that many young Nigerians have for a long time abused this drug is no ...

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has spoken on the reopening of Emzor Pharmaceuticals and two other drug companies. Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and ...

Nigeria government on Tuesday places restrictions on use and importation of codeine to curtail widespread abuse of the drug, especially by youths across the country. He also directed NAFDAC to stop ...

As part of efforts to tackle drug abuse in the country, the Federal Government on Tuesday banned the production of codeine containing syrup in the country. The federal government also banned sales of ...

The Federal Ministry of Health has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the importation of ...