Nigeria
Companies
Lending weight to BMI's view that the challenging operating environment facing Nigerian drugmakers is creating a trend for diversification, another domestic player has announced a...
2008-02-01Companies
Possibly encouraged by signs that non-communicable chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer are on the rise in Africa, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Nigeria, a subsidiary of India's...
2007-11-29Industry
Public health officials in Nigeria are battling to restore confidence in the country's polio vaccination programme after it was revealed that the live-attenuated vaccine strain used...
2007-10-11Industry
Putting former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's commitment to achieve universal healthcare by 2015 into doubt, the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme...
2007-10-02Companies
Nigeria is looking to Chinese firms for advice on how to transform locally popular traditional African remedies into commercially successful pharmaceuticals. Chinese drugmakers have...
2007-09-21Companies
The Nigerian unit of UK-based drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has defied difficult operating conditions to record impressive financial results for 2006 with turnover rising 21%...
2007-05-29Companies
The State Government of Kano, Nigeria, is suing Pfizer International , the Nigerian subsidiary of Pfizer , the world's largest drugmaker, for a total of US$2.7bn. The lawsuit stems...
2007-05-24Companies
With BMI believing that Nigeria's drug market remains undervalued considering the size of the population, we examine drug regulator NAFDAC's ongoing efforts in the fight against...
2007-04-12
