Nigeria is on the global hotspot on account of a crisis brought into bold relief by an investigative documentary trending in the media. The documentary entitled Sweet Sweet Codeine, made
by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Africa Eye undercover reporters,
featured some workers of three Nigerian pharmaceutical companies – Emzor
Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Lagos; Bioraj Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Peace
Standard Pharmaceutical Ltd., in Ilorin , Kwara State
One of the workers featured in the documentary openly admitted his company’s
massive sales of codeine cough syrup in the country, and boasted that he could
sell a million cartons of the syrup in a week. The sales representative has
since been fired by the company concerned.
