Illicit Drugs: Tinubu urges NDLEA, partners to crush syndicate

Vice President Kashim Shettima, retired Brgadier general Buba Marwa NDLES boss and others at the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Africa (HONLAF), in Abuja.

President Bola Tinubu has implored the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies in Africa to renew the fight against substance abuse. Tinubu made the call, while declaring open the 31st meeting of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Africa (HONLAF), on Tuesday in Abuja. Represented by the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, the president also enjoined the continent’s anti-drugs agencies to fight against illicit drug trafficking in their respective countries. He warned vehemently that the African continent would remain in chains till it breaks free from the shackles…

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Increasing Criminality: CP Garba takes advocacy to Kaduna Mosques, links acts to poor parenting

Commissioner of Police Kaduna State Musa Yusuf Garba

By; Abdull-Azeez Ahmed Kadir, Kaduna As criminality and other violent acts increase in Kaduna, the State Police Command Commissioner, Musa Yusuf Garba is taking advocacy to curb the menace to religious houses, while blaming poor parenting as a contributory factor to the acts in the State. Garba made this assertion while speaking at Yahaya Road Jumma’at Mosque on Friday 8th September, 2023 after the congregational prayers where he pleaded with community leaders to take charge of community policing by aiding the security agents with useful information. The Police Commissioner decried…

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70% drug importation unhealthy for Nigeria, NAFDAC warns

The Director-general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has decried Nigeria’s continuous dependence on other countries for drugs, as about 70 percent of drugs in the country are imported. The DG, who stated this while fielding questions from newsmen at a media briefing yesterday in Abuja, said it doesn’t mean that the country should not import drugs, but 70 percent is too much. Speaking on the agency’s fight against falsified medicines, Adeyeye recalled that NAFDAC was not at the nation’s ports…

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Police arrest 63 suspected thugs, drug dealers in Kano

The police command in Kano State, has arrested 63 suspected thugs and drug dealers in a clearance operation across the eight Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Kano metropolis. The state spokesperson for the police, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, said this in a statement on Thursday in Kano. He said the persons included 42 suspected notorious thugs (Yan Daba) and 21 drug dealers, adding that they were arrested from May 30 to June 1. He said the clearance operation was part of efforts to rid the state of all forms of criminality,…

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