The Anambra State Government has announced the ban on all forms of open advertisement of herbal medicines in the state.

This was disclosed in a statement by the state Commissioner for Information, Sir Paul Nwosu, on Saturday.

Nwosu also said the state government had directed that all advertisements for herbal drugs must be approved by the office of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Herbal Medicine and Pharmaceuticals before they could be displayed in any public space or media platform.

He gave the categories of herbal medicines to include products made from botanicals or plants, that are used to treat diseases or to maintain health.

He listed it as a medicinal product and herbal supplements made from plants and used for curative or preventive purposes.

According to him, the exercise is targeted at regulating and controlling the use of herbal substances which has been on the increase among residents of the state.

Before the ban, Anambra was noted as a place where open advertisements of herbal medicine in motor parks and other strategic places are rampant, where many residents have often depended on herbal medicine, popularly called “Agbo”, as a remedy for a range of illnesses and diseases.

However, the increase in cases of some illnesses such as kidney failure has been attributed to the indiscriminate use of herbal medicine (Agbo) in the state.

“The ban on open advertisement of all forms of herbal medicines in the state is to contain the excesses and the indiscriminate use of herbal concoctions among the people,” the statement added.

Source: https://punchng.com/Anambra-bans-advertisement-of-herbal-medicine

Shot fire! I see a ban of traffic hawkers somewhere in Nigeria.

Yoruba Agbo sellers are gradually turning Anambra market to Agbo market yet, no one is harassing them.

All we say is that they should be respectful to there hosts and obey all the safety rules

The ban is for good reason.
&those adverts at motor parks especially the ones on sex enhancers are often offensive.
But is the ban only for open advertisement or does it extend to sales too?

Somebody wants to put Yorubas in Anambra out of business .

Next you'll realise, Lagos government is going to ban street trading along traffic congestions in the state.

Economic warfare "o ti set"!

BoldBrainz:
Somebody wants to put Yorubas in Anambra out of business .

they are free to do there businesses in Anambra state but all safety rules must be adhered to.

I am Yoruba and we must respect our hosts

Next would be the ban of gala and lacasera on the highway

Good quack medicine shouldnt be used at all, any medicine not subject to Quality control and regulation is not good

001Lagos:
Yoruba Agbo sellers are gradually turning Anambra market to Agbo market yet, no one is harassing them.

All we say is that they should be respectful to there hosts and obey all the safety rules

Get your tribal rubbish out of here

Ttalk:
Next would be the ban of gala and lacasera on the highway

Most of the people selling bottled water on Lagos roads are Yoruba women and children

I am from Lagos and this is the truth

Shots fired
Tribal battle to start in 1...2.....

001Lagos:
Yoruba Agbo sellers are gradually turning Anambra market to Agbo market yet, no one is harassing them.

All we say is that they should be respectful to there hosts and obey all the safety rules

Do you clowns respect your host here in south west? Or just nuisance and nonentity behaviours

001Lagos:
I am Yoruba and we must respect our hosts

With that your cassava head shape. Okoro, dey play. Mr Chinedu

Fugazy2023:


Do you clowns respect your host here in south west? Or just nuisance and nonentity behaviours

Igbos pay the highest tax in Lagos and contributed to the 55% growth of Lagos

Same can't be said about the Agbo sellers fr south west that are living and doing business in south east

Agnes Nwamma

Soludo and his anti Yoruba policies, instead of roads and infrastructure he was elected to do useless man

Fugazy2023:


With that your cassava head shape. Okoro, dey play. Mr Chinedu

See this Osun state man, you think everybody is lazy like you

001Lagos:

See this Osun state man, you think everybody is lazy like you

How you take know say I lazy? ode omo ina chigozie

Nice one...





Wittyness

This is extremely stupid. More importation. I hate Soludo

001Lagos:
Yoruba Agbo sellers are gradually turning Anambra market to Agbo market yet, no one is harassing them.

All we say is that they should be respectful to there hosts and obey all the safety rules

Is like Igbos have started faking their own "agbo" because they see it as lucrative businesses. Yorubas know that type of business well and it has never been reported negatively to this extent of Anambra. Once you see Igbos using borrowed jeeb to hawk "agbo", then; you should know they have started faking it. Whatever outcome, it will still affect Anambra people because it is now that fake Igbo sellers will package themselves to get approval from government which they will front to deceive people of Anambra as they even hide behind that to advance their well known illegal drugs

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001Lagos:

Igbos pay the highest tax in Lagos and contributed to the 55% growth of Lagos

Same can't be said about the Agbo sellers fr south west that are living and doing business in south east

Statistics from Igbobi Bureau of Statistics mugu...
Na from the gala sales and fake spare parts business una take dey pay the highest tax abi... . Ozuor

good move.....in a country with no proper ethical values and healthy monitoring it is long overdue. This must be replicated across the country. It might interest you to note that despite the ban, many will still publicly flout the directive and NOTHING WILL BE DONE. IS THIS NOT NIGERIA OF NOW?

Mostly,
Agbo,hawked by agbadorians,the zoogerians

It's a nice Decision,the advert is uncalled for, expecially that of s*x enhancer.

Ok

providencia:
Shot fire! I see a ban of traffic hawkers somewhere in Nigeria.

E don set..

Anambra and harbal drugs are like Tinibu and drugs