NIPRD Director-General, Dr Obi Adigwe
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.
Speaking during the document’s public presentation yesterday in Abuja, Adigwe recalled that when COVID-19 got to the country, NIPRD discovered that there were claims from various sources laying claims to valid ‘cure’ “but with no real science-led approach regarding how these claims came about or were validated.”
He said: “There is risk in taking unverified drugs. So, in engaging with the claimants, resources have to go into the real areas that scientific research needs to be carried out.”