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The European Parliament is debating a draft biopiracy law requiring industry to compensate indigenous people if it makes commercial use of local knowledge such as plant-based medicines. Under the law – based on the international […]
NLIPW Patents Law Volume 1 Number 5 eDigest (Nigerian Inventors) April 26, 2013 Every year, on April 26, innovators, inventors, visionaries, scholars and countries from around the world celebrate World Intellectual Property Day! The theme […]
NLIPW Copyright Law Volume 1 Number 4 eDigest (Role of Librarians & Open Access) April 22, 2013 Content Sources Library Philosophy and Practice Digital Commons at University of Nebraska – Lincoln Academia.edu Library Philosophy and […]
The Nigerian Customs Service Zone C destroyed 7,552 cartons of frozen poultry worth N77 million in Owerri. The Comptroller, Victor Dimka, said the contraband frozen turkey and chickens smuggled into the country from France. Dimka […]
The National Agency for Food, Drugs and Administration Control (NAFDAC) has won its appeal against the March 4, 2011 ruling by a Federal High Court sitting Kano which discharged an Indian businessman, Dijay Lawani, of […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos, will on April 17, continue hearing in a case against Barewa Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, charged with the production of an alleged killer teething syrup, “My Pikin”. The National Agency […]
Kano state government has urged people from all walks of life to shun business of illicit and counterfeit drugs. Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso said this at the weekend while destroying illicit and counterfeit drugs worth […]
The board of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has stressed the urgent need for enhanced capacity development for the nation’s agency responsible for fending off fake and substandard products.
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