Kwara seals off 6 medicine stores

Date: 2013-07-03

The Kwara Government on Tuesday closed down six patent medicine stores for dispensing fake and counterfeit drugs in Offa and Ijagbo.

The Chairman, Kwara Assembly Committee on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs, Hajiya Risikat Lawal, ordered the closure when the committee visited some patent medicine stores in the state.

The six affected stores are located in Offa, Offa Local Government Area and Ijagbo in Oyun Local Government Area.

The stores are: Havila Pharmaceutical Services, Ijagbo; Alayande Medicine Stores, Ijagbo; and Ola-Iya Stores, Offa.

Others are Femto Medicine Stores, Offa; OloBola Medicine Stores, Offa; and Jossy Patent Medicine Stores also in Offa.

The Chairman said some of the offences committed by the sealed stores range from unregistered outfit, selling of regulated drugs such as anti-biotics, anti-hypertensive and treatment of patients.

She said owners of any medicine store found stocking fake and counterfeit drugs would be liable to half a million naira fine or imprisonment for two years or both.

"Patent medicine shops should desist from selling ethical drugs like Ampiclox capsules, procaine and penicillin injections with other controlled drugs," she said.

The Chairman advised patent medicine stores in the state to register and renew their licences with the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria through the state Ministry of Health.

Reacting to the development, the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Tunji Moronfoye, re-affirmed of government’s determination to rid the state of sales and consumption of fake and counterfeit drugs.

Moronfoye told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the committee on fake and counterfeit drugs would continue to assist the government to eliminate fake drugs. 

 - NAN

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     T And K FOODS     Abubakar Ndakene     March 28     Ibrahim Abikan     Kwara State Polytechnic     Bolakale Ayo     Al-Hikmah Radio     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Segun Olawoyin     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Nnazua     Ganiyu Taofiq     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Onilu     First Lady     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Matthew Babaoye     Niyi Ogundiran     Quarry Royal Valley     Grillo     Boko Haram     Omotoso     Sayomi     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Shagari     Budo-Egba     Nagode     Allocation     Funmilayo Zubair     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Lanre Badmas     Oke-Ogun     Gbemi Saraki     Jaiz Bank     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Babatunde Idiagbon     Mutawali     Adekunle David Dunmade     Ado Ibrahim     Balogun-Ojomu     Wasiu Onidugbe     Musbau A. Akanji     Mutawalle     Kwara NIPR     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Simeon Sayomi     Arca Santa     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Elesie Of Esie     Abdulazeez Uthman     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Sai Kayi     Jumoke F. Ajao     Imam Gambari     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Mike Omotosho     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     United Nigeria Airline     Kwara Central     Budo Egba     Tunde Oyawoye     Salihu Yahaya     Gobir Organization Foundation     Ramadan     Ilorin West     Obasanjo     Ilorin Emirate     Ayekale     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Toyin Saraki     Sulyman Buhari     AIT Ilorin     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Olatunde Michaels    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Fawenu     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Bisi Oyeleke     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Okeose Christian Cementary     Solomon Edoja     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Idowu Laro     Rueben Parejo     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     ER-KANG Mining     Arca Santa     COVID-19 Palliatives     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Kwara Metro Park     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Face Masks     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Oke-Kura     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     IDPU     Binta Sulyman     Ishola Abdullahi     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Balogun Gambari     Suleiman Abubakar     Kola Shittu     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Ajuloopin     Ayobami Akanbi     Ilorin Airport     Ilorin.Info     Ibrahim Mashood     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Ahmed Bayero     Laboratory-to-Product     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Amasa     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Ajia-Bako     Tunji Moronfoye     Oko-Erin     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Tayo Awodiji     Sabo-Oke     Www.Kwarareports.com     Adamu Atta     Olatinwo     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Ibrahim Gambari     Baba-Isale     ANCOPPS     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Shonga Farm Project     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Barakat Community Secondary School     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Saheed Akinwumi     SSUCOEN     Garment Factory     Dan Masanin     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Oko-Olowo     Buhari     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     KwaraLearn     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Elekoyangan     Modibo Kawu     Arinola Lawal     Nurudeen Muhammed     TETFUND