Year in review · from our August 2026 register copy
NAFDAC registrations in 2018
By the approval dates our August 2026 copy of the Greenbook records, 952 products were approved onto the register in 2018 — 910 of them in Drugs. 0% of the class of 2018 is still active in our copy today.
By category
- Drugs— 910
- Medical devices— 40
- Herbals and Nutraceuticals— 2
Month by month
Approvals are batched — quiet months and spikes are the register's own rhythm, not demand.
Who registered the most
- 1.Excel Charis Pharmaceutical Chemical— 21 approvals
- 2.Onifam Laboratories— 21 approvals
- 3.Phillips Pharmaceuticals (Nigeria)— 16 approvals
- 4.Foundation Pharmacy & Stores— 15 approvals
- 5.Dony-Triumph and Company Nigeria— 13 approvals
- 6.Embassy Pharmaceutical and Chemicals— 11 approvals
- 7.Eminent Drugs and Pharmaceuticals— 10 approvals
- 8.Greenlife Pharmaceutical— 10 approvals
- 9.TAH Pharmaceuticals— 10 approvals
- 10.Zunamediks Pharm— 10 approvals
Where the year's medicines were made
Factory countries recorded on 910 of the year's 910 drug approvals.
Month-to-month changes — new listings, renewals, lapses — live on the NAFDAC Registry Watch, updated with every register refresh.
Other years
Counted from the approval dates in our dated copy of the public NAFDAC Greenbook. The register backfills approval entries long after the fact, so a year's count can still grow after it ends — which is also why the current year has no page until it completes. Registration counts are not market share or sales.