A photo of Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan can be seen on the screen at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, after the announcement he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on October 3, 2016.

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No fewer than 572 pharmacies, patent medicine stores and illegal medicine outlets have been sealed by the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria across Plateau State.

The outlets were shut for various violations of pharmaceutical regulations, including cooking inside drug outlets, illegal clinical practice and unauthorised access to controlled medicines.

The PCN’s Head of Department, Enforcement, Dr Suleiman Chiroma, disclosed this at a press conference in Jos on Friday at the end of a four-day enforcement exercise.