Kenya has become the second African country, after Nigeria, to recall Johnson & Johnson's children's cough syrup following claims of an unacceptably high level of a potentially fatal toxic substance.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that a batch of tainted cough syrup discovered in Cameroon may have traveled to other nations, including Nigeria.
No fewer than 100,000 bottles of codeine syrup with a total weight of 15,325kilograms have been intercepted and seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Onne seaport, Port Harcourt, Rivers state.
also directed the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria, (PCN) and NAFDAC to supervise the recall for labelling and audit trailing of all codeine containing cough syrups in the country, while he has also banned sales of Codeine containing cough syrup
A nursing mother identified as Emperial Crystal Black on Facebook has cried out after she discovered methylated spirit in what was supposed to be a bottle of Citramin syrup.
NAFDAC said that it will hold a stakeholders meeting on the codeine crisis in a few days to develop a roadmap for the supply chain distribution and the future of codeine syrup manufacturing.
According to a Twitter user with the name, imperatorduduosa; A 24 yr old male final year university student died this morning. 5 days ago, he attended a party where he ingested an unknown quantity of liquor, codeine syrup, tramadol and marijuana
"Mr President has given instructions for the airlifting of Nigeria's allocation of the Madagascar COVID-19 Syrup; also given clear instructions that it must be subjected to the standard validation process for pharmaceuticals; there will be no
He wrote in the caption; "We visited Abule Ijesha, Shomolu where the abuse of new street drugs which include tramadol, a pain killer, codeine in cough syrup, which is mixed with milk or fizzy drinks, in addition to marijuana and other drugs
According to Twitter user @imperatorduduosa, ' he attended a party where he ingested an unknown quantity of liquor, codeine syrup, tramadol and marijuana. He ended up with bleeding from nostrils and mouth. And intractable seizures.
He revealed, "Let me state categorically here that these new psychoactive substances that are commonly abused today include Cannabis Sativa, skunk, Cough syrup with codeine; Ice, Tramadol, Rohypnol, Diazepam, Pentazocine, rubber solution, glue
bales of used clothing; 61 units of vehicles including five luxury buses; 173,975 litres of petrol, an equivalent of five tanker loads; 107 sacks and 1,595 wraps of cannabis sativa; 167 cartons of 100x100ml and 27 cartons of 200x100ml codeine syrup
Recovered from his white Mercedes distribution bus include: 14,690 bottles of codeine-based syrup; 402, 500 tablets of Tramadol 250mg; 50,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg and 210,000 capsules of pregabalin 300mg."