Year in review · from our August 2026 register copy
NAFDAC registrations in 2021
By the approval dates our August 2026 copy of the Greenbook records, 2,496 products were approved onto the register in 2021 — 2,288 of them in Drugs. 44% of the class of 2021 is still active in our copy today.
By category
- Drugs— 2,288
- Medical devices— 169
- Herbals and Nutraceuticals— 30
- Vaccines and Biologics— 6
- Veterinary— 2
- Uncategorised— 1
Month by month
Approvals are batched — quiet months and spikes are the register's own rhythm, not demand.
Who registered the most
- 1.Onifam Laboratories— 50 approvals
- 2.Novartis Nigeria— 49 approvals
- 3.Afrab-Chem— 48 approvals
- 4.Phillips Pharmaceuticals (Nigeria)— 46 approvals
- 5.Drugfield Pharmaceuticals— 42 approvals
- 6.Fidson Healthcare— 42 approvals
- 7.SKG - Pharma— 42 approvals
- 8.Sanofi— 41 approvals
- 9.Me Cure Industries— 38 approvals
- 10.Micro Nova Pharmaceuticals Ind— 38 approvals
Where the year's medicines were made
Factory countries recorded on 2,178 of the year's 2,288 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.