NAFDAC had instructed the pharmacists under the listed places to register its premises for a national database.
The National Chairman of ACPN, Pharm Ezeh Amrose Igwekamma, said the directive by NAFDAC was too difficult to ignore, and an attempt to usurp the constitutional powers of the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), adding that the action could disrupt the pharmaceutical sector of the nation’s economy.
‘’The ACPN observed with distress a recent directive by NAFDAC decreeing all operators in the recently sealed Idumota in Lagos, Ariaria in Abia, and Head Bridge markets to register with NAFDAC on a certain portal for a national database.’’