{"id":62403,"date":"2025-03-09T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62403"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:29:55","slug":"nafdac-slams-false-report-denies-accusing-pcn-of-counterfeit-drug-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/09\/nafdac-slams-false-report-denies-accusing-pcn-of-counterfeit-drug-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Slams False Report, Denies Accusing PCN of Counterfeit Drug Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has dismissed a media report alleging that it indicted the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), in counterfeit drug distribution, calling it a gross misrepresentation of facts.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC\u2019s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, in a strongly worded statement on Sunday, clarified that her March 1 interview was twisted to create a false narrative.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that her remarks were intended to explain the distinct roles of NAFDAC and PCN in pharmaceutical regulation\u2014not to accuse PCN of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report is misleading and damages the collaborative efforts between NAFDAC and PCN in safeguarding public health,\u201d Prof. Adeyeye stated, condemning the sensationalized headline.<\/p>\n<p>She emphasized that her comments on past regulatory gaps were taken out of context and urged the media outlet to retract the false claim and issue a public apology.<\/p>\n<p>Should they fail to do so, she warned, NAFDAC would take appropriate legal action to address the misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has dismissed a media report alleging that it indicted the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), in counterfeit drug distribution, calling it a gross misrepresentation of facts. NAFDAC\u2019s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, in a strongly worded statement on Sunday, clarified that her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62405,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62403\/revisions\/62405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}