Stop flooding our markets with fake products!
Stop flooding our markets with fake products!
Stop flooding our markets with fake products!
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Na our lives dey at stake here. Don’t kill us all with fake products, abeg! 🥲🙏🏾
MY BROTHER AND PARTNER AT 60: KASHIM SHETTIMA, GCON
Today, I warmly congratulate Vice President Kashim Shettima @KashimSM@officialSKSM, my brother and partner in steering the ship of our state, on his 60th birthday.
I rejoice with his wife, Nana, children, family and political associates on this important milestone.
Kashim is not just a trusted ally or a valued colleague, but also a patriot whose life has been defined by service, commitment and sacrifice for worthy causes.
In celebrating Kashim, we celebrate his distinguished banking career and exemplary record of service to Borno State and Nigeria.
Shettima's unwavering commitment to our nation's progress and unity is particularly worthy of mention.
I commend him for his years of dedicated public service, first as Governor of Borno State and subsequently as Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In both capacities, Kashim has demonstrated courage, diligence, compassion and an abiding commitment to improving the lives of the people.
I acknowledge, in particular, Vice-President Shettima’s loyalty to the All Progressives Congress (APC), support for the administration and his unwavering dedication to the success of the Renewed Hope Agenda.
As Chairman of the National Economic Council, Shettima has provided purposeful leadership in coordinating economic policy and fostering collaboration among the Federal Government and the sub-nationals.
His respect for constitutional governance, democratic institutions, and dialogue and consultation has helped strengthen good governance.
As a trusted partner, his loyalty, wisdom and sense of duty have remained invaluable to the administration.
I must thank Vice President Shettima for his steadfast support and partnership as we continue to join hands in delivering the promises of Renewed Hope to Nigerians.
I am confident that working together, we will continue to make meaningful progress in building the Nigeria of our dreams.
On behalf of the Federal Government @NigeriaGov, I again congratulate Vice President Shettima on this milestone, and I pray that Almighty Allah will continue to guide, protect, and strengthen him.
May Munificent Allah grant him wisdom and good health, and bless him with many more years of purposeful service to Nigeria.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
September 1, 2026
@NGRPresident
It is high time the Federal Government declared a state of emergency on fake and substandard products in Nigeria. A group of greedy, organised criminals cannot keep poisoning this country while they smile to the bank. What is happening in our markets is not petty trading. It is organised economic and public-health sabotage. It should be treated with the seriousness we reserve for terrorism, because the outcome is the same: Nigerians are being killed slowly, quietly, and profitably.
NAFDAC has said cosmetics, food and beverages now account for over 50% of the counterfeit products it seizes. Pharmaceuticals remain a major share. That means the things we put on our skin, put in our children’s mouths, and swallow when we are sick are the most faked categories.
In February 2025, coordinated raids on the big open drug markets in Idumota, Onitsha and Aba sealed more than 11,000 shops and evacuated 138 truckloads of suspected fake, expired, banned and unregistered medicines valued at over ₦1 trillion. Markets that supply a huge share of medicines used across Nigeria.
In February 2026, NAFDAC uncovered what it called a “death warehouse” at Lagos Trade Fair: over 10 million doses of fake cerebral malaria injections, antibiotics and banned Analgin, worth about ₦3 billion, products officials said could have killed three million Nigerians if they reached the streets. Days later, another ₦3 billion haul of banned and toxic cosmetics came from the same complex.
Customs has been intercepting containers of expired drugs and products carrying fake NAFDAC labels; one Apapa seizure alone was valued at ₦53.4 billion. Fake malaria drugs worth ₦1.2 billion have been found declared as “spare parts.” Counterfeiters now use online ordering and groupage cargo to stay one step ahead.
Official estimates put substandard and falsified medicines at around 13–17%. Pharmacists and some market studies put the figure far higher in open markets; 30% and above, and in some assessments over 50%. Even bottled water is being refilled and resealed. Imported auto spare parts fail SON standards at rates reported as high as 95%.
People die from malaria that “treatment” never treated, from antibiotics that never fought infection, from cosmetics loaded with mercury and steroids, from electrical and auto parts that fail when lives depend on them.
Confidence in every product collapses. When citizens cannot trust medicine, food or water, the social contract itself is damaged. NAFDAC has already described the trend as a threat to public health and national security. That language is not accidental. Seizures without enough prosecutions and convictions only recycle the problem.
Criminals calculate that the profit is worth the risk.
A state of emergency here does not mean empty speeches. Treating large-scale manufacture, importation and distribution of life-threatening fakes as organised crime against the civilian population with the intelligence, inter-agency and prosecutorial weight that implies.
Properly funding and coordinating NAFDAC, SON, Customs, FCCPC and the police so raids are followed by convictions, not just bonfires. Closing or strictly converting the worst open drug markets into coordinated, traceable wholesale systems.
Public naming of syndicates and the ports, warehouses and markets that keep feeding them.
We cannot continue like this. A nation that cannot protect what its people eat, drink and use for treatment is not merely facing a regulatory failure. It is facing a slow-motion assault on its own population. The Federal Government should treat it as such.
Fela was already getting global attention 50 years ago as the originator of “Afro-Beat”.
This is the @nytimes in July 1976. Sent John Darnton to Surulere to visit the Shrine, back when it was on Western Avenue.
September starts with some of our Corporate Commercial Team members closing a MF Bank acquisition transaction.
As typical with most of our corporate commercial work, the clients comes with the idea and believes us to weave the magic that would help move them from idea to reality while ensuring all legal ends are covered. This is one major reason I enjoy law and its dynamic nature that spur innovative thinking, pushes one beyond limit, while handing out some sprinkles of sleepless nights because the thoughts of building won’t even let you sleep.
Beyond typing behind a screen, reviewing documents in abstract and the cold feel of papers, our corporate team visits project site to understand workability and challenges so that tailor made legal services can be provided.
Personally, I want my lawyers to always feel a sense of pride when they walk past our transactions in future while saying silently to themselves “I was a part of this. My skills helped make this happen. I will leave the world a better place.”
Happy New month everyone.
#StrichlandLP🔥 #Law|Strategy|Result📌
“At any given moment, you have the power to say, ‘this is not how the story is going to end’.” ~ Christine Miller
Hold the vision.
Remember your why.
Put in the work.
Trust the process.
45 ! This boy here is helped by God. From A to Z, it is God all the way.
Saints, Today, please help me Thank Him. Give Him all the glory on my behalf.
And proclaim this new year “The year of The LORD’s favour.
The year of New Beauty. The year of Honour. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST !
“to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.””
Luke 4:19 NIV
The rustling of Okin wrappers and the crunching of the biscuits in the mouth were among the most popular soundtracks of 1980s and 1990s urban childhood in Nigeria...
Bata on the feet, Okin in the schoolbag -- and other nostalgic stories...
AFTER 17 YEARS… THE LINE RUNS AGAIN.
25/08/2026 Yesterday marked a significant milestone in the journey to bring Okin Biscuits back.
For the first time in 17 years, biscuits rolled off one of our rehabilitated production lines at the factory in Offa. We had to rebuild the line after having all cables, frequency drives, contactors, motors and other electronic components stolen
This was a technical TRIAL RUN - NOT a product trial. At this stage, we were not concerned about colour, appearance or achieving the final Okin recipe. The objective was simple: Can we bring this line, silent for 17 years, back to life? And we did !
And there was another major milestone: IBEDC officially connected the factory to a 33Kva Band A electricity grid today.
There is still work ahead. More testing. More calibration. More rehabilitation. And, of course, getting that familiar Okin taste and quality exactly right before the biscuits return to the market.
But today, we celebrate progress.
The machines are turning.
The ovens are firing.
The biscuits are beginning to roll out again.
One step at a time. Okin is coming back.
#OkinBiscuits #OkinIsComingBack #Since1980 #MadeInNigeria #Offa #Ijagbo
Say this silent prayer before bed 🔥
Lord, Show me how good it can get, Surprise me with opportunities I never expected.
Connect me with people I never knew I needed, Take me into rooms I could never ever enter on my own.
Give me the courage to leave survival mode and believe better days are possible. I release every fear that keeps me attached to struggle and I declare that my past will not interfere with my future and fear will not stop me.
Let me walk in your image. Amen 🙏
Taiwo Ogogo (Hassan) Obit
"Ogogo was, however, more than just a movie star...he was a thespian who continued the legacy of the Yoruba travelling theatre"
Read his full obituary below: @thejidetaiwo@JollyPaps1@OneMotolani
🔗https://t.co/LP1ASNemqq
They came all the way from Philadelphia, America, to experience and celebrate Yoruba culture, traditions, and the powerful sounds of Yoruba drums.
Yoruba culture is one of the world’s most admired, influential, and widely studied cultures. Its rich traditions, language, music, dance, art, spirituality, and history continue to inspire people far beyond Yorubaland. The fact that people are willing to travel from across the world to learn about and experience Yoruba heritage is a powerful reminder of the global impact and enduring beauty of the culture.
Preserving and sharing these traditions is not only about honoring the past, it is also about ensuring that future generations understand, appreciate, and carry the richness of Yoruba heritage forward.
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