President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the setting up of an inter-ministerial committee to fashion out how medicines and livestock drugs can be made available to the Nigerian public at a fraction of the prevailing prices.
Receiving the executive board members of a pharmaceutical company, Graham Foggs Ltd, at State House, Abuja, Friday, the President reiterated his commitment to the improvement of the quality of lives of Nigerians, and then charged the Ministers of Health as well as Agriculture and Rural Development to work with the pharmaceutical company, “short-circuit disruptive bureaucracy, and brief me from time to time.”
The company, led by Chief Sam Nda-Isaiah, a pharmacist and newspaper publisher, seeks to make essential medicines and livestock drugs available to the public, at significantly reduced prices.
“It has been established that 70% of…
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