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NAFDAC destroys 100 trucks of N1trn substandard drugs in Anambra
No fewer than 100 truckloads of drugs have been destroyed in Awka, Anambra state by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
The drugs were seized at the bridgehead Market in Onitsha and Aba, Abia state by the agency.
The combined value of the burnt drugs, according to the agency, was worth over one trillion naira.
According to the Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Moji Adeyeye, they were confiscated during the month-long operation carried out by the agency and security officials.
Adeyeye was represented by the Southeast Zonal Director, Martins Iluyomade .
The destruction was done at the ASWAMA destruction site in Awka.
Adeyeye said the action taken by NAFDAC had saved millions of lives of Nigerians, stating that the drugs were among the highest in the world at a single exercise.
Adeyeye said: “We as an Agency, have come to realize that the time has come for us to put an end to the circulation of substandard and falsified medicines in Nigeria.
“People have cried and we have listened and that is why we are working in such a way that Nigerians can go to bed and sleep, knowing that whatever medicine they take is safe, certified and effective
“We also saw medicines that had been banned and we wondered about the obsession with them. There are also in circulation, narcotic medicines, including tramadol and these are the things that promote insecurity in the country. Also, many a time, people had used different medicines only to get treatment failures, which, in turn, cause economic failures for the country,” she said.
Tireless Senator Haruna Manu has spread solar panels to Gembu Central mosque for installation.
Recall that last year, Senator Manu installed solar energy in all major traditional palaces across Taraba Central Senatorial District.
On Sunday, prominent elders in Gembu received solar panels for their central mosque.
The solar meant to be installed in the Central mosque Gembu has arrived Gembu on Sunday afternoon.
The chief Imam of the central mosque Gembu in Company of some title holders Iike Wakilin Mambilla, Wakilin Fulani , Galadiman Mambilla and some prominent elders received the equipment for installation in Gembu today being 23rd March 2025.
The people are grateful to His Excellency Manu Haruna for this wonderful supply, Barr.Ahmadu Hamidu revealed on Sunday.
…refused to pay ground rent for 28years
Lere Olayinka, a media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike has alleged that some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are responsible for the revocation of the party’s headquarters by the FCT Administration.
In a statement released on Saturday, March 22, Olayinka said PDP leaders like Bode George failed to pay the ground rent on the land title for 28 years.
He said, “People’s Democratic Party (PDP) elders like Chief Bode George, should be blamed for the party’s failure to pay Ground Rent for 28 years, which is the reason for the revocation of the PDP’s national secretariat in Abuja, and not the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike.”
Olayinka in the statement said it is unfortunate that leaders like George who were in the PDP’s National Working Committee but failed to conclude the purchase of the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of the PDP had the audacity to appear on television to blame Wike.
Further stating the Wadata Plaza – currently being used by PDP as its national secretariat – is not owned by the party, Olayinka said the building belongs to Senator Samaila Kurfi, who bought the property from Wadata Enterprise Nigeria Limited.
He added that in 2005, the PDP had made an attempt to purchase the property at a N26.9. million offer but the money was never paid.
He said the party wrote to the then minister of FCT, Nasir El-Rufai, also a member of the PDP for a waiver but he (El-Rufai) insisted that the payment must made.
“And if the owner of the building did not pay ordinary N2.8 million as 28 years Ground Rent, who is to blame?” Olayinka queried.
On the proposed site for the PDP’s national secretariat which is located in Central Area, Olayinka said the party also failed to pay N7.6 million – an accumulation of 20 years ground rent – despite raising over N21 billion for the construction of the building in 2014.
He added, “If Chief Bode George had sought necessary information and refrained himself from acting out of hatred for Wike, it would have been known to him that also affected by the revocation were government owned institutions.”
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