ShareBy Aluta News Aug 17, 2023 The Kaduna State Government has pledged to allocate 15 per cent of the annual budget for healthcare delivery. Gov. Uba Sani made the promise while hosting a delegation from the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar III, represented by the Emir of Argungu, AlhajiContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 10, 2023 The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised Nigerians not to consume fruits ripened with calcium carbide to avoid health complications. The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning in her keynote address during the South-SouthContinue Reading
ShareNgo (Rivers), August 3, 2023 – Prof. Beatrice Awortu, wife of Chairman, Andoni local government area in Rivers has donated wrappers, toiletries and consumables to expectant and nursing mothers in the area council. Awortu made the donation on Wednesday at Ngo the council’s headquarters as part of activities marking theContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 24, 2023 The Agricultural and Rural Development Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Monday, began a four-week mass vaccination of cattle to curb the spread of Anthrax in the FCT. The acting Secretary of the secretariat, Alhaji Ishaq Sadeeq, inaugurated the exercise inContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 24, 2023 The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has notified Nigerians about the sale of unwholesome Mayonnaise branded (Whippy Real Mayonnaise) in Nigeria. The notification is contained in a public alert, No. 024/2023, and issued to the News Agency of NigeriaContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 10, 2023 The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has reached out to pre-shipment inspection agents at Nigerian ports on the need for them to collaborate with a view to ensuring that export-bound foods are not rejected abroad. The collaboration move wasContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 8, 2023 The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday in Abuja raided hawkers of unwholesome drugs at the Nyanya/Mararaba axis of Abuja. Addressing newsmen after the exercise, the team leader of the operation, Mr Umar Suleiman, said the operation followedContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 2023 Five local government areas in Kaduna State are currently benefitting from the Resilient and Sustainable System for Health (RSSH) and COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C119RM) Global Fund grant to mitigate the scourge of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria diseases.The state’s Programme Officer, Mr Peter Ezekiel, disclosed thisContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 17, 2023 A dietician, Dr Salami Akorede, has called on NAFDAC to regulate the mode of processing cow hide into “ponmo’’ for human consumption. Akorede is the Director, Dietetics Department at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 14, 2023 The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Wednesday burst Baban Aisha (a Local herbs producer) production factory in Tarfa community, along Kaduna-Abuja road. NAFDAC investigation and enforcement unit which carried out the operation along with its Kaduna state office, Continue Reading