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The Lagos State Government says it has sealed 24 pharmacies and patent medicine stores in various parts of the state for illegal operation and operating beyond scope of pharmaceutical practice. Prof. Akin Abayomi, the state Commissioner for Health, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Lagos. Abayomi said that the enforcement was part of
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A Jos-based Pharmacist, Mrs. Rotkang Okunlola, has advised consumers to always check the expiry date on drugs, beverages, packaged foods, and cosmetics, before purchase. Okunlola, who gave the advice in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jos, observed that most people never cared to check expiry dates on items upon
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By Vincent Ujumadu – Awka The Director of Inspection and Monitoring in PCN, Mrs. Anthonia Aruya said in Awka that a total of 779 outlets were visited during the inspection exercise, comprising 191 pharmacies and 500 patent medicine shops, adding that the exercise was geared towards streamlining the drug distribution value chain to promote the
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Lawal Fadekemi September 25 is a day set aside to annually highlight the value of the pharmaceutical profession to stakeholders globally. This day was set aside in 2009 by The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), adopted at the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences the same year. The year’s theme, “Safe and effective medicine for
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AS part of its resolve to obtain presidential assent to the Pharmacy Bill 2017, the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, called out community pharmacy practitioners in the country to withdraw services for two hours and shut down their pharmacies on Monday 6th May, 2019 from 12 pm to 2pm.
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THE Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, PCN, says it has sealed thirty-six pharmacies and another two hundred and eighty-five patient medicines stores, PPMVs, in Bayelsa State over non compliance issues.
Read More A new curriculum for the pharmacy profession in the nation’s universities is in the offing, the President of Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, has said.
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IN its bid to rid the country of quackery and unwholesome practices, and to establish standards in all areas of pharmacy practice, the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, PCN, has deployed eight teams of seasoned inspectors to five geopolitical zones.
Read More THE Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Group of the Manufacturer’s Association of Nigeria, PMG-MAN, has lauded the recent Executive Order on support for Local Content in Public Procurement.
Read More AS the SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 deadline elapsed for pharmaceutical companies to fully comply with utilisation of the Mobile Authentication Service, MAS, technology on their regulated products, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has urged Nigerians not to accept antimalarials and antibiotics without the MAS code on their packs.
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