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 ...

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 department's drug inspection team took this action after irregularities were found during an inspection of the drug manufacturing unit, they said. During the inspection on Monday, officials from ...

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 ...

One of the pharmaceutical firms mentioned in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) video documentary on codeine production and distribution, Bioraj Pharmaceutical Limited, Ilorin yesterday said ...

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 ...

May 1 (UPI) --Nigeria's ministry of health banned the production and importing of codeine-based cough syrup Tuesday after a news investigation found teens were abusing it to get high. The ...

Actavis, the pharmaceutical company that produces the prescription cough syrup Promethazine Codeine which is used to make the controversial ‘Sizzurp’ drink, has decided to pull the product off the ...

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Saturday lifted the shutdown order on three companies who were closed on May 7. The pharmaceutical firms were closed as the agency ...

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 ...

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has directed the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the ...