Codeine

Arrests 70-year-old grandma, her son for drug trafficking as Agency’s sniffer dogs uncover cocaine in India-bound shipment Desperate attempts by transnational criminal organizations to flood Nigerian communities with large quantities…
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..... Seizes 3,975kgs skunk, 58,200 tramadol pills in Kaduna, Kano, Imo, Lagos raids; arrests 11 suspects Attempts by elements of Organised Criminal Groups to use various disingenuous modes of concealment to import consignments of…
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An Indian businessman, Vyapak Nutal, has been taken into custody for interrogation by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, over the smuggling of 134,700 bottles of Codeine syrup into the country through the land…
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC) has shut Peace Standard Pharmaceutical Limited, Bioraj Pharmaceutical Limited and Emzor Pharmaceuticals Ind. Ltd., that were implicated in the codeine syrup crisis.…
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The Federal Ministry of Health has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the importation of codeine as active pharmaceutical ingredient for…
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The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a trailer loaded with 24,000 bottles of cough syrups containing codeine in Funtua local government area of Katsina State. The NDLEA State Commandant, Hajiya Maryam Gambo Sani…
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