The National Agency for Food Drugs and Control (NAFDAC) has reviewed registration fees by 50 per cent while also evolving new policies that would reduce difficulties in doing business in Nigeria, including foreigners willing to invest in the sector.
The agency’s acting Director General, Mr Ademola Mogbojuru, disclosed this during NAFDAC Stakeholders Consultative Forum for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSE) in support of the federal government initiative on ease of drug businesses.
Mogbojuru, represented by the Director Special Duties, Abubakar Jimoh, said that the free waivers were inspection, laboratory analysis and expert licenses granted to exporters of regulated products as well as reduction in fees charged for registration of locally manufactured regulatory products.
He said that NAFDAC has begun the listing of products for a period of two years renewable afterwards hence some minor and small businesses to be registered at zonal levels to ease the bottleneck experienced in the past.
The acting director general said that the measures were aimed at not only making it easy for investors in Nigeria but to promote Small and Medium scale Enterprises and as well assist businesses to grow.
Mogbojuru further explained that the agency keyed into the federal government’s change agenda just as the measures were aimed at supporting the diversification of Nigerian economy from a consumer of finished goods to an exporter of goods and services.
While warning all NAFDAC staff against sabotage by way of frustrating registration processes by clients, Mogbojuru disclosed that the new registration rate for packaged water is now within 90 days while that of bakeries is now 30 days.
In his remarks, Niger State NAFDAC Coordinator, Mr. Isah Ibrahim, had emphasized the need for all hands to be on deck without which it will not be easy for the agency to monitor and check harmful and unwholesome products in circulation.
(nigerianewsflight.com)
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