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BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY - PROF MOJISOLA CHRISTIANAH ADEYEYE

Prof Moji Adeyeye is the Director General (DG) of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) where she has added strong governance structure and regulatory strengthening to NAFDAC through disciplined and motivating workforce, updating of regulations and guidelines, strengthening the local pharmaceutical companies through international best practices, and encouraging local production. She has brought NAFDAC from insolvency to solvency. She refocused the Agency through Quality Management System approach and WHO Global Benchmarking to be Standard Operating Procedure-driven organization that has embraced international standards and best practices. This has resulted in attainment of ISO 9001-2015 in 2019, WHO Maturity Level 3 (ISO 9004) in 2022 (a recognition as a well-functioning Agency in many regulatory functions), and Prequalification of Lagos Central Drug Control Laboratory in 2023. She changed the culture of NAFDAC to Customer-focused and Agency-minded establishment in order to safeguard the health of the nation. Prof Adeyeye is focused on Market Control (MC) of regulated products to mitigate Substandard, falsified and counterfeited medicines (SFs) and unwholesome foods by enforcing good distribution and storage practice (GDSP) in the open drug markets. In February 2025, she led a simultaneous first time in Nigerian history enforcement of GDSP in Aba, Idumota and Onitsha Bridge Head markets where more than one trillion Naira SFs were evacuated and destroyed. As part of MC, the DG is leading continentally in the use of technology (GS1) to monitor through Track and Trace, of COVID-19 vaccines (during the pandemic), and now other products such narcotics, Maternal, Newborn Child Health (MNCH) commodities in the supply chain. She has initiated research collaboration with several institutions as a means of increasing staff competency, improving regulatory research with goal to stimulate Research & Development in the pharmaceutical industry.

Prof Adeyeye graduated from University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria with a
B. Pharm degree in 1976. She obtained her PhD from the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, in Industrial Pharmacy, in 1988. Prior to assuming the position of Director General of NAFDAC, she was a Professor of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Drug Evaluation for thirty years in the USA. She retired as Professor Emeritus from Roosevelt University, College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois, USA. She has mentored 15 PhD and M.S candidates co-advised 18 graduate students as research committee member.