NAFDAC Greenbook: what it is and how to use it

What the NAFDAC Greenbook is

The Greenbook is NAFDAC's list of registered products, open to anyone. NAFDAC's product registration page links to it as the Registered Products Database, at greenbook.nafdac.gov.ng.

NAFDAC's Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, presented it at a media briefing in December 2023, with 6,432 registered pharmaceutical products, Nairametrics reported. NAFDAC launched it in Lagos on 17 January 2024. A NAFDAC IT deputy director described the aim as one source of information on registered drugs.

You will see it written two ways. News reports often say "Green Book". NAFDAC's app is called NAFDAC Greenbook. Both names mean the same database.

Why NAFDAC built the Greenbook

NAFDAC presented the Greenbook during a period of action against fake medicines. At the same December 2023 briefing, NAFDAC reported that its enforcement directorate had destroyed 135 truckloads of fake, counterfeit and spurious products, along with expired products, worth about ₦16 billion. The Director-General described the Greenbook as a step towards transparency and consumer safety.

At the Lagos launch, she linked it to the WHO global benchmarking of regulators, under which NAFDAC holds maturity level three. In March 2025, NAFDAC presented the Greenbook as its response to more sophisticated counterfeiters.

The Greenbook sits alongside NAFDAC's other public warnings. NAFDAC also publishes counterfeit products in daily newspapers and runs the Shine Your Eyes programme on national television, the News Agency of Nigeria reported.

What a Greenbook record shows

At the Lagos launch, NAFDAC officials listed the details the Greenbook holds for a product:

• Product name and NAFDAC number
• Strength and dosage form, such as 500mg tablets
• Composition: the active ingredients and how much of each
• How the product is taken or applied
• Side effects
• Marketing authorisation details, meaning the company that holds the registration
• The manufacturer and the site where the product is made

NAFDAC built the Greenbook for healthcare professionals, patients and the public. Officials said pharmacists can use it on Android phones to confirm whether a product is registered. Part of this data comes from what companies submit when they register a product. The App Store listing adds that the app carries NAFDAC news, alerts and recalls of unsafe or substandard medicines. Version 1.0.2 added biologics, medical devices, natural health products, veterinary products and a list of manufacturers. Version 1.0.5, from May 2025, added a Report SF feature for substandard and falsified products.

How to use the Greenbook

1. Open greenbook.nafdac.gov.ng in your phone browser, or install the NAFDAC Greenbook app from the App Store or Google Play.
2. Type the product name, the brand name or the NAFDAC registration number into the search.
3. Open the record that matches.
4. Compare the record with your pack: product name, strength, dosage form and manufacturer.
5. Search the other way round too. If you searched by number, search by product name, and the reverse.

The last step matters. A number search tells you which product a number was issued to. A name search tells you which number a product should carry. A fake pack with a borrowed number fails one of the two.

The Greenbook is one of several NAFDAC tools. For food, water and veterinary products, the NAFDAC registration portal has Verify Products options that take a NAFDAC number. Some antimalarial and antibiotic medicines carry a scratch panel under NAFDAC's Mobile Authentication Service: you scratch it to show a one-time PIN and text the PIN to a short code. NAFDAC says the text is toll-free. Alerts about falsified batches are on NAFDAC's recalls and alerts page.

What the result tells you

At a NAFDAC workshop in Port Harcourt in March 2025, the Director-General said a product listed in the Greenbook has been registered by NAFDAC, The Conclave reported.

A listing is about the product, not the pack in your hand. NAFDAC alerts show counterfeiters printing real numbers on fake packs. In Public Alert No. 023/2026, counterfeit proguanil tablets carried a number that belongs to Feroglobin B12 capsules. A Greenbook search for that number returns a real record, for a different product.

The Greenbook tells you what was registered. Your job is to make sure the record matches the product in your hand.

For the patterns NAFDAC has found on fake packs, read how to know a fake NAFDAC number.

When a product is not in the Greenbook

A missing product is not always a fake. In June 2025, at a two-day workshop in Lagos on the Greenbook, NAFDAC's traceability project and its paediatric policy, NAFDAC urged marketing authorisation holders to submit their products to the Greenbook, the News Agency of Nigeria reported. The Director-General said some companies had been slow to submit, and a product may be registered without appearing in the app.

1. Search again by product name, brand name and number.
2. Use Verify Products on the NAFDAC registration portal. It has separate options for food, water and veterinary products.
3. Call NAFDAC on 0700-1-623322 and give them the name and number on the pack.
4. Until you have an answer, do not use the product.

Step by step guides for each tool are in how to verify a NAFDAC number online.

If the Greenbook shows a different product

Do not use the product. Keep the pack and your receipt. NAFDAC alerts ask you to report suspected substandard or falsified products to the nearest NAFDAC office, by phone on 0800-162-3322 or by email to [email protected]. You can also use the Report SF feature in the Greenbook app. See how to report fake products in Nigeria.