Janet Ogundepo
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has said its Five Plus Five Year Validity policy, which requires pharmaceutical companies to locally manufacture or partner for local production of 29 essential medicines previously imported into Nigeria, has resulted in a 70 per cent reduction in the importation of products under the policy’s coverage.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, describing the policy as a turning point that had pulled Nigeria’s pharmaceutical industry back from what she called the brink of collapse.
She said, “In 2019, we started what is called 5 Plus 5. The products that we have been importing into the country that we can also produce, we give you five years to migrate to local manufacturing or to partner. That has changed the industry.
“We have decreased importation of products under those categories, 5
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