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Enforcement of the ban on packaged alcohol and sales in sachets and small bottles is protective rather than punitive and is still prohibited in the nation, according to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of NAFDAC, signed a statement stating that the organization had resumed enforcing its prohibition on the manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages in sachets and small-volume PET/glass bottles (less than 200 ml). According to Adeyeye, the action complied with the Senate's recent guidelines.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Southwest Zone destroyed counterfeit, substandard, and unwholesome pharmaceutical products worth N20 billion on Thursday in Ibadan, Oyo State. According to the agency, the routine destruction operation is consistent with its duty to prevent expired, falsified, and hazardous medical products, as well as other NAFDAC-regulated items, from being reintroduced into the market.

Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has come under fire from former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, over an altercation with soldiers in a disputed area of Abuja. Videos that went viral on Tuesday showed Wike arguing angrily with troops at the location in the country's capital.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over the increasing resistance to polio vaccination in parts of Northwest Nigeria, warning that the trend could jeopardize the country’s efforts to completely eradicate the disease. UNICEF revealed that around 3,000 households in Sokoto, Kebbi, and Zamfara States recently rejected polio vaccines for their children during the latest immunization exercise.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted Nigerians about the circulation of fake postinor 2, which is a widely used emergency contraceptive pill.

A new report by Smart DNA Nigeria has revealed that about 25% of paternity tests (i.e 1 in 4) conducted in Nigeria returns a negative result, an alarming paternity crisis and deepening trust issues within Nigerian families. According to the report, in 2025 alone, an Annual DNA Testing Report released within this week, at the Lagos-based genetic testing company revealed that 25 per cent of paternity tests conducted between July 2024 and June 2025 were proved fraudulent, they tuned out that the presumed fathers were not actually biologically related to the children in question.