{"id":82004,"date":"2026-01-21T19:38:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82004"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:38:49","slug":"nafdac-targets-whos-top-regulatory-status-with-ai-driven-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/21\/nafdac-targets-whos-top-regulatory-status-with-ai-driven-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC Targets WHO\u2019s Top Regulatory Status With AI-Driven Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has announced plans to attain the World Health Organisation\u2019s Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT) Maturity Level 4, alongside full digitalisation of its regulatory processes and deployment of artificial intelligence in drug regulation.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this on Wednesday at a media parley in Lagos while reviewing the agency\u2019s reforms since 2018. She said the next phase would consolidate gains and position Nigeria as a regional and global regulatory leader.<br \/>\nAdeyeye said NAFDAC\u2019s priorities include advancement to WHO GBT Maturity Level 4, transition to ISO 9001:2026 certification, complete digitalisation of operations and the use of AI in drug approval and safety monitoring. She noted that the reforms are anchored on sustainability, innovation and public health protection.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that NAFDAC attained WHO Maturity Level 3 in 2022 and was re-benchmarked in 2025, becoming the first regulatory authority in Africa to achieve the feat. The agency was also admitted in November 2025 as the 24th member of the International Council for Harmonisation.<\/p>\n<p>On local manufacturing, Adeyeye said policies such as the 5+5 regulatory directive have boosted domestic production, improving the import-to-local production ratio from 70:30 in 2019 to 60:40 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>She added that NAFDAC is moving from digitalisation to intelligent regulation using artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to strengthen oversight and protect public health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has announced plans to attain the World Health Organisation\u2019s Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT) Maturity Level 4, alongside full digitalisation of its regulatory processes and deployment of artificial intelligence in drug regulation. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82004","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\/82004","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=82004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82006,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82004\/revisions\/82006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}