By: Ganiyu Olayinka
The Federal Government has announced plans to extend the Presidential Executive Order supporting local pharmaceutical manufacturing by an additional two years.
If approved, the extension will run until March 2029, with the government saying the move is intended to strengthen medicine security and cut Nigeria’s reliance on imported drugs by 70%.
Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Iziaq Salako, disclosed the plan while speaking at the opening of the 8th Nigeria Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Expo (NPME) 2026. He said the existing executive order introduced by the Bola Tinubu administration to support domestic pharmaceutical production is set to expire in March 2027, and that the Federal Government had concluded plans to push that timeline out to March 2029 as part of a broader push to expand local drug manufacturing capacity.
“The Federal Government has indicated plans to extend the Presidential Executive Order supporting local pharmaceutical manufacturing by another two years,” Salako said.
He reaffirmed the government’s commitment to strengthening domestic pharmaceutical production, describing it as a pathway to medicine security, healthcare resilience and economic development. The minister added that expanding local manufacturing capacity would help reduce the country’s dependence on imported medicines while strengthening the pharmaceutical sector more broadly.
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