The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, on Wednesday, called for an urgent digital revolution in the country’s drug manufacturing industry, even as it raised the alarm that COVID-19 disruption has led to drug shortages, an inflow of illicit and adulterated drugs.

Say contractors inflate prices by over 50% By Chioma Obinna Irked by the plight of Nigerians living with HIV and dwindling donor funds, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, and Transparency International, TI, Nigeria have raised the alarm over alleged irregularities in the procurement process of Anti-retroviral, ARV, drugs by the National Agency for […]

By Evelyn Usman A staff of one of the nation’s electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, has been arrested by the Police in Lagos for allegedly drugging and defiling a 14-year-old girl in the Ejigbo area of Lagos. The suspect (name withheld), had gone to install prepaid meters for some residents of Akinwunmi Street, Ile-Epo area of […]

They will be handed over to NDLEA — Commissioner By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Cross River Police Command on Thursday disclosed that it has apprehended a gang of hard drug peddlers including five suspected cultists in the state. Vanguard learned that the syndicate who specializes in the distribution and sales of tramadol, weed, and […]

A gang of 16 suspected drug peddlers in the Gangare community of Jos North local government area of Plateau State have been nabbed with one of them in possession of an identity card belonging to the Nigerian Army, a state-based security outfit, Operation Rainbow disclosed.