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By Sola Ogundipe, Evelyn Usman and Chioma Obinna Rampaging gunmen stormed a store on 3rd Avenue, Gwarimpa, Abuja, last Friday and killed its owner, Sunday Ike, a pharmacist, following which his colleagues threatened to withdraw their services. After the act, the gunmen zoomed off in the victim’s Toyota Camry car with number plates BS 286
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By Chioma Obinna The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Sunday appealed to the Federal Government to extend the recent import waiver on medical supplies by President Mohammadu Buhari to all essential drugs and not only those related to COVID-19. Stating this in Lagos, the President of the PSN, Pharm. Sam Ohuabunwa said the extension of
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By Sola Ogundipe Nigerian Association of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists in the Americas, NAPPSA, Inc has expressed concern over misinformation about the coronavirus disease, and the advertisement and sale of unproven and illegal coronavirus, COVID-19, prevention and treatment options. In a statement, NAPPSA President, Dr. Anthony Ikeme, and Secretary, Dr. Aloysius Ibe, NAPPSA said: “It
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The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria ACPN, has called on infected Nigerians to desist from indiscriminate consumption of chloroquine as a measure to cure dreaded Corona virus as suggested by US president, Donald Trump .
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Dr. Stanley Emegwara, the new Chairman of the Imo chapter of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), has expressed concern over the low number of pharmacists in the country. Emegwara made the remark in an interview with newsmen in Owerri, shortly after he emerged as chairman in an election held on Wednesday as part of
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Hope of survival has risen for Nigerians exposed to untoward effects of drugs, substances of abuse and poisons as the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, upscaled its information centre to a 24-hour National Drug & Poisons Information, Emergency Response and Research Centre.
Read MoreEXCEPT stakeholders in the Nigerian pharmaceutical industry begin to innovate towards the transformation of the industry, there may be no positive growth or production of globally competitive products and goods.
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ON the heels of the 2019 general election, economic experts and analysts of the local manufacturing industry have called for a turnaround of fortunes of the Nigerian industrial sector.
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Community pharmacists in Lagos have rejected the newly launched Lagos State Health Insurance Scheme, saying “the Scheme is shrouded in secrecy and not encompassing”.
Read MoreTHE Federal government has been called upon to patronise the local pharmaceutical industry by purchasing made in Nigeria pharmaceutical products even as pharmacists have warned that overdependence on imported medicines is a health security risk to the country.
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