The NIPRD Director-General, Prof. Karniyus Gamaniel, said this while presenting the score card of his eight-year tenure (2009 to 2017) in Abuja on Friday
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Those inducted were the Director-General, Nigerian Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Prof. Karniyus Gamaniel; former Deputy Provost, University of Lagos, Prof. Herbert Coker; one-time national pharmaceutical advisor, World Health Organisation, Dr. Ogori Taylor; first African woman to bag the fellowship of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in the US and Professor of Pharmaceutics
National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Development and May and Baker Pharmaceutical Company have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on it
Gamaniel said the drug was currently under the authority of the Federal Government, hence it was being produced and distributed solely by the Institute
The Director-General of NIPRD, Prof. Karniyus Gamaniel, noted at the event with the theme: strengthening the research and commercialisation of NIPRD phytomedicine, that estimated world market for herbal medicine based on traditional knowledge is $60 billion, which is 30 per cent of world pharmaceutical sales, adding that Africa accounts for only 1.2 per cent of the world’s total