Pfizer executives face Nigeria arrest
A judge in Nigeria ordered the arrest of three executives of New York-based drug company Pfizer Inc., saying they failed to honor an order to appear in court over a $2-billion suit the company is facing for a 1996 drug trial.
Judge Shehu Atiku, sitting in Kano, Nigeria, said the executives of the Pfizer subsidiary in Nigeria had not heeded a Nov. 6 ruling that they should appear in court. The executives to be arrested include the head of Pfizer in Nigeria, Ngozi Edozien, and Lare Baale and Segun Donguro, the court papers said.
The now-controversial trials for the antibiotic Trovan were conducted in Kano on 200 children during a meningitis epidemic in 1996.
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