Fake NAFDAC registration used to smuggle drugs into Nigeria — Customs

Hands over N53bn worth of seized drugs, expired pharmaceuticals to NDLEA, NAFDAC
By Efe Onodjae
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has uncovered an attempt to smuggle unregistered pharmaceutical products into Nigeria using a fake registration number of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, disclosed this yesterday during the handover of seized narcotic drugs and expired pharmaceutical products worth N53.4 billion to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and NAFDAC at the Apapa Area Command.
According to Adeniyi, one of the intercepted shipments contained 1,100 packages of CHACOLD Chl...