Nigeria files new lawsuit against Pfizer

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

ABUJA (AFP) — Nigeria filed a new lawsuit Friday against US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer claiming some 6.5 billion dollars in damages for deaths allegedly stemming from drug trials.

Hours after dropping its original suit claiming seven billion dollars in damages, government lawyer Babatunde Irukera presented a new complaint to the high court alleging the tests conducted in 1996 were "unlawful and reprehensible".

"We are refiling a new suit. The new action will have a significant number of facts that will be vital to the court consideration on what actually happened in Kano in 1996," the lawyer said.

"The new suit contains more courses of action and facts. There are new fraud charges. We have added things like restitution, unjust enrichment and post-clinical...