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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, have uncovered prohibited drugs at the Onitsha Bridgehead drug market in Anambra State.
NAFDAC revealed this in a post on its X account alongside a video of the raid.
The drugs were hidden inside plumbing material shops.
Officials of the agency seized two trailer loads of unregistered narcotics, banned tramadol, and counterfeit drugs.
The tweet read: “In a startling discovery, NAFDAC uncovered prohibited drugs hidden inside PLUMBING MATERIALS SHOPS at the Onitsha Bridgehead Drug Market.
“Officials seized two trailer loads of unregistered narcotics, banned tramadol, and counterfeit drugs concealed within these shops.”
This comes days after The Eastern Updates reported that traders in Onitsha are currently battling losses occasioned by the continuous shutdown of six major markets in the area by security operatives for more than two weeks now.
Nigerian security operatives had taken over the markets and locked up every shop under the guise of clamping down on fake and expired drugs dealers.
The affected markets include Onitsha drug market, Oduwani (Power Tools and Allied) market, Surgical Line market, Plumbing Materials market, the Ogbogwu fashion line market, the Bridgehead provision market and part of the timber dealers market.
In other news, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has alerted Nigerians, including healthcare providers, about a counterfeit cancer treatment drug, Phesgo 600mg/600mg/10ml, labelled with batch number C5290S20.
This is contained in a public alert (No. 051/2024) available on the agency’s website.
The agency reported that the Marketing Authorization Holder, MAH, Roche, received a complaint from a doctor at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH-NSIA, regarding the suspected counterfeit product.
