On virtually every Nigerian street you get to, you will find retailers selling drugs and medicinal products, popularly called chemists. The bulk of them are operating unregistered, and owning a shop only takes a few months of apprenticeship in a pharmacy store. This provides an avenue to produce and sell fake, unregistered drugs and contrabands.

No thanks to this menace, Nigerians have become prone to high mortality rates, morbidity, and loss of public confidence in the health sector. It’s even worse that these drugs manage to find their way into health centres and some standard pharmacy stores. The convincing packaging won’t enable just anyone to spot the fake ones.

Unfortunately, the two major agencies in the country charged with the responsibility of preventing both the production and the proliferation of fake drugs, have failed to protect Nigerians.

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