The Nigerian Federal Government is set to ban the sale of Rohypnol, clinically known as Flunitrazepam, a sedative with hypnotic effects that was administered on Miss Cynthia Osokogu by friends she met through the social network before she was killed in a Lagos hotel few months ago.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said his ministry had directed the National Drug Formulary and Essential Drug List Committee to look into the possibility of banning the drug. He made this known to the State House correspondents yesterday at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja that the decision to ban the drug was informed by the need to curb its abuse.
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