{"id":72820,"date":"2025-08-11T15:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72820"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:37:28","slug":"tinubu-applauds-nafdacs-who-maturity-level-3-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/11\/tinubu-applauds-nafdacs-who-maturity-level-3-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Applauds NAFDAC\u2019s WHO Maturity Level 3 Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), for retaining the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO), Maturity Level 3 status after a re-benchmarking exercise conducted from May 28 to 30.<\/p>\n<p>The status, first attained in 2022, confirms NAFDAC as a stable, well-functioning regulatory authority for medicines and vaccines, making it the first in Africa to achieve this feat among non-producing countries.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu hailed NAFDAC\u2019s professionalism, describing the recognition as \u201ca boost to Nigeria\u2019s credibility in global health security and pandemic preparedness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed his administration\u2019s commitment to improving access to safe and effective medicines, noting that the milestone aligns with his Renewed Hope Agenda for healthcare reform.<\/p>\n<p>The President cited ongoing efforts to upgrade primary health centres, expand health insurance coverage, and support NAFDAC\u2019s drive toward achieving WHO Maturity Level 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), for retaining the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO), Maturity Level 3 status after a re-benchmarking exercise conducted from May 28 to 30. The status, first attained in 2022, confirms NAFDAC as a stable, well-functioning regulatory authority for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72820","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72821,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72820\/revisions\/72821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}