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Institute develops verification protocol to improve drug security
24 Dec  Nigeria
Director General, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research & Development (NIPRD), Dr. Obi Adigwe, has said his agency’ s phytomedicines verification and validation protocol would bring about drug security in Nigeria.
How NIPRD is redefining African traditional medicines’ response to COVID-19 — DG
30 Aug  Nigeria
The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) says its research and development activities have redefined response of African traditional medicines to the COVID-19 pandemic. NIPRD Director-General, Dr Obi Adigwe, made this known in a statement on Sunday, ahead of the forthcoming African Traditional Medicine Day commemoration, on August 31. The theme for the…
FG pledges to promote herbal medicine
2 Jan 2020  Health
The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to promote practice of herbal medicine according to international best practices and standards, in order to cure ailments within such purvey.
FG pledges to lift herbal medicine
27 Dec 2019  Nigeria
The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to promote herbal medicine according to international best practices and standards, in order to cure different ailments that defy conventional medicine.
Poor funding, weak regulation cripple efforts to develop traditional medicine
31 Aug 2019  Health
Today, August 31, is the African Traditional Medicine Day (ATMD). The commemoration of the ATMD coincides with the date, August 31, 2000, on which the ministers of health adopted the relevant resolution...
WHO to assist FG integrate traditional medicine into national healthcare
31 Aug 2019  Nigeria
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has restated its commitment to support the Federal Government to further integrate the practice of traditional medicine into the National Health System.
NIPRD seeks collaboration with NCC on health database
19 Jul 2019  Nigeria
The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) is seeking for engagement with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on an online health database.
Medicines’ security: Consolidating health access gains and catalysing national development in 2018
25 Jan 2018  Health
The recent reprioritisation of American Policy has identified Economic Security as critical to America’s National Security.
‘Why Nigerians should patronise locally made drugs’
2 Mar 2017  Health
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Group of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMG-MAN) and a recent independent study have given more reasons why Nigerians should patronize locally made medicines.