NANS urges NAFDAC to test drugs, food sold around campuses

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has called connected the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to behaviour random laboratory tests connected drugs, food, drinks and packaged h2o sold astir tertiary institutions implicit concerns astir imaginable wellness risks.

The relation besides urged the regulatory bureau to fortify surveillance of markets and shops astir assemblage campuses and pupil residential areas, arsenic good arsenic contented nationalist alerts and callback unsafe products erstwhile necessary.

NANS made the demands successful a missive addressed to NAFDAC’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, signed by its Director of Health, Augustine Onovughegor, connected Friday, October 16, 2026.

The students’ assemblage said reports from field wellness centres, teaching hospitals and pupil communities had raised concerns astir the information of products consumed by young Nigerians.

It listed kidney and liver complications, seizure disorders, gastrointestinal infections, foodborne illnesses and suspected chemic poisoning among the wellness problems reportedly affecting young people.

According to the associat...