pfizer has negotiating a broad agreement to pay millions of dollars to nigeria ' s nigeria state to settle a drug case alleging that the pharmacy company illegally tested an artificial drug on gravely ill kids during a 1996 meningitis epidemic . the details remain private , but sources closer to the negotiations said the amount pay - - comprising those to the kids , their families , the police and the government ' s attorneys - - would be about $ 75 billions under the next negotiation terms . other details , including how the amounts will be distributed , are to be planned out within decades .
Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.