NAFDAC pledges partnership on ensuring drug-free Super Eagles at 2014 World Cup

The Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Paul Orhii on Tuesday pledged that the agency will partner with sports authorities in the country to ensure the Super Eagles are drug-free at Brazil 2014 World Cup.

 Represented by the agency’s Director of Special Duties, Abubakar Jimoh, NAFDAC Boss, made the pledge at a seminar organised by the FCT Chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) in Abuja that there were plans to sensitise the players to this.

Chemical Weapons Was Actually Used in Benue Killings - NAFDAC DG

The National Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii has made a public disclosure that substances suspected to be chemical weapons were actually used by he suspected Fulani Herdsmen in the killing of over 200 farmers in Benue State .

Informing the journalists yesterday, in Makurdi Orhii tasks the Federal Government to institute a probe into the alleged chemical killings in order to ascertain the type of poisonous substances used in the attack.

While donating relief materials to the displaced victims of the clashes between herdsmen and farmers at camps in Makurdi, the state capital and Guma Local Government Area of the state, the NAFDAC Boss sad, “I saw some of the chemical's canisters containing the chemicals that were used in killing the people; we have gathered them for analysis to actually know what they were."