pfizer has made a broad agreement to pay millions of dollars to nigeria ' s kano state to settlement a criminal case alleging that the heroin label legally experimented an experimental compound on severely ill students during a 1996 meningitis epidemic . the details remain classified , but sources close to the negotiations said the total payments - - including those to the children , their families , the youth and the government ' s attorneys - - would be about $ 75 million under the current settlement terms . other features , including if the dollars will be distributed , are to be sorted out within moments .
Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.