The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Thursday in Abuja vowed to sustain its fight against counterfeit drugs, unwholesome foods and other substandard products through the use of cutting edge technology.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, spoke at the 10th annual award ceremony for winners of the NAFDAC secondary school competition for members of the NAFDAC Consumer Safety Club.
Orhii said, “As a strategy for curbing the trend, we have introduced the initiative of catching them young. The catching them young initiative is aimed at inculcating the culture of quality in our young people, who will in turn propagate these values to their families and the general public.”
He said the aim of establishing the NCSC was to empower the youth towards a better tomorrow that would result in positive attitudinal change, adding that “NAFDAC will continue to promote various activities of the club members as we can rebrand Nigeria by equipping our youths who are the future hope of this great nation.”
The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Mahesh Sachdev, said his country had become Nigeria's first source of medicines and medical tourism.
He, however, urged the students to work hard as according to him, “whatever you are going to be in the future is going to be determined by what is in your brain, rather than the state you come from or the language you speak.”
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