The Chairman of Xechem International, Inc. (OTC BB: XKEM), Dr. Ramesh C. Pandey, responded today to a number of questions posed by investors and others in the business community concerning the status of its operations in the aftermath of the approval of NICOSAN(TM), its sickle cell drug, by Nigerian regulators on July 3rd, 2006. Some of the questions posed to the company and answered by Dr. Pandey are the following: