The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has busted a notorious fake-drug syndicate inside the Trade Fair Complex, uncovering a massive illegal factory and distribution hub for fake and banned medicines.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Addressing a press conference in Lagos, Martins Iluyomade, Director of Investigation and Enforcement, NAFDAC, revealed that intelligence reports received on February 3rd led operatives to a seemingly ordinary warehouse inside the Trade Fair Complex, a location that turned out to be a massive illegal factory and distribution hub for fake and banned medicines.<\/p>\n According to Timothy, NAFDAC officials discovered millions of falsified and prohibited doses of drugs, including Fake anti-malaria medications, counterfeit injections, so-called \u201clife-saving\u201d emergency drugs and products that have been banned in Nigeria for more than 15 years inside the facility.<\/p>\n The NAFDAC director disclosed that some of the drugs were cloned to look exactly like genuine medicines, making them nearly impossible for ordinary Nigerians to detect.<\/p>\n NAFDAC further stated that the fake anti-malaria drugs had the potential to kill more than three million Nigerians by allowing malaria to go untreated while victims believed they were receiving real medication.<\/p>\n In total, over 10 million doses of dangerous fake medicines and cosmetics were recovered from the warehouse.<\/p>\n The seized products are valued at \u20a63 billion, and eight trailers were required to evacuate the deadly cargo from the site.<\/p>\n NAFDAC described the operation as one of the biggest fake-drug busts in Nigeria\u2019s history, confirming that the warehouse was part of a well-organised cartel with national distribution networks.<\/p>\n Four suspects were arrested at the scene, while a full manhunt is now underway for the cartel\u2019s mastermind, who is believed to be coordinating a multi-billion-naira criminal enterprise.<\/p>\n The agency has vowed to dismantle the entire fake-drug network, warning that anyone involved in the production, storage, or distribution of these deadly substances will face the full weight of the law.<\/p>\n This operation, NAFDAC says, has saved millions of lives and exposed how close Nigeria came to one of its deadliest pharmaceutical disasters<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … required to evacuate the deadly cargo<\/span> from the site. NAFDAC described …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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