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Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Federal Government on Thursday berated the organised labour over the strike it

The bill was titled: “Motion on the Urgent Need to conduct a national baseline survey on fake anti-malaria medicines in Nigeria.”

In June 2018, NAFDAC was informed of the circulation of some fake varieties of anti-malaria drugs imported fraudulently from India. Counterfeit/fake anti-malaria drugs are mostly observed to be deliberately made to look like brand name drugs or may have no active ingredients or have less than the required amount of active ingredients or may even contain ingredients that are not what is described on the package label imported/manufactured, distributed/sold and eventually ignorantly used by malaria patients without any curetic effects.

To this end, the House called on the Federal Government to subsidise malaria drugs if it cannot make them free at all government-owned health centres for the benefit of Nigerians.