As reported by the Guardian newspaper, the NAFDAC Director General said “So, we want to change the 70 per cent importation of drugs into the country to 30 per cent by 2025, so that as a nation we can say we have drug security because we don’t have that now.
In addtion, she noted that the agency had also tightened the belt around shipment of drugs into the country.
The Agency has consistenly implemented policies that will boost local durg manufacturing. One of such policies is the Migration to local production policy (5 plus 5 year policy), new ceiling list of dosage forms that cannot be registered as imported products