The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested three members of an organised criminal organisation which specializes in illicit drug trafficking across Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Europe and America following the recent seizure of the single largest consignment of heroin at the Murtala Muhammed Intern...
•Marwa and governors wives The Nigeria Governors Spouses Forum (NGSF), has called on the federal and state governments to declare state of emergency on substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in Nigeria with a view to mobilising resources to tackling the pandemic. The call was one of the resolutions in a communique signed by Chairperson [...
•Dr Otiko The United States of America (USA) based Nigerian Medical Doctor, Christopher Ayo Otiko, who discovered the drug called TETRACYTE for the treatment of diabetic ulcer, has revealed how many years it took him to produce the drug. According to him, it took him between the years 2008 and 2016 for the process of […]
Following the increasing number of youths involved in use of hard drugs, the Lagos State Government in collaboration with some agencies, today took to the streets of Lagos to campaign against the dangerous vice. Moving in convoys, singing, drumming and wearing customized T-shirts and faze caps, the campaigners particularly addressed the youths...
•Oyintiloye Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene in the hike in prices of essential drugs in the country. Oyintiloye, who made the appeal while speaking with newsmen yesterday in Osogbo, the state capital, said that many Nigerians a...
Three officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) were injured when they repelled a gunfire attack at a forest in Edo State. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement today, saying armed hoodlums blocked all roads at Opuje community, in the Owan West Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo State to […]
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has called on the federal government to probe alleged corrupt cases made against some of the Chief Executive Officers of the Federal Health Institutions. A communique of the 96th annual national conference of the PSN, titled, ‘Jewel City 2023,’ also raised alarm over the unregistered two million drug selle...
•NDLEA operatives at work NDLEA has arrested three visually-impaired men operating an illicit drug ring between Lagos and Kano. A fourth equally disabled member of the gang is still at large. NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi stated today in Abuja that the lid was blown off the group following the arrest of […]
The police in Rivers State today said its operatives smashed a drug trafficking syndicate and recovered 300 parcels of weed suspected to be Indian hemp. Speaking during a press briefing today at the command headquarters in Port Harcourt, the state Commissioner of Police, Nwonyi Emeka, said the syndicate was rounded up following credible Intell...