The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the use of bleaching creams in Nigeria has now become a national health emergency.

Mojisola Adeyeye, director-general of NAFDAC, spoke on Thursday while flagging off a media sensitisation workshop on the dangers of bleaching creams and regulatory control organised by the association of Nigerian health journalists in Kano.

Adeyeye said the use of skin-bleaching creams is prevalent among 77 percent of Nigerian women.

SOURCE- THE CABLES