Inside Lagos’s Mobile Pharmacies: Unlicensed Drug Hawkers Thrive on Buses

A woman’s voice cut through the stuffy Ikorodu–Ketu bus as she waved strips of blood tonic and painkillers from a crumpled nylon bag. “₦1,500 only! Pharmacies sell for ₦2,500! Buy before you get down,” she called. It was a hot Wednesday afternoon. Sweat dripped down faces and the air reeked of body odour. Yet the hawker pressed on, offering Ferolab blood tonic, Diclofenac and other medicines with no licence checks or expiry date scrutiny. Within minutes, the overcrowded bus became a makeshift pharmacy. Passengers snapped up the cheap relief without asking questions. A Lagos Voice investigation shows that strict laws have done little to stop these mobile drug markets.

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