Tag: Drug
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NDLEA arrests traditional ruler. others for drug trafficking
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested one Abubakar Ibrahim, the village head of Gidan Abba, Bodinga Local Government Area of Sokoto, with 10 others over 991,320 pills of pharmaceutical opioids. A statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja, said 1,251kgs of cannabis and Khat…
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LP Senatorial candidate arrested for drug-related offence – Police
The Police Command in Ebonyi, has said the Labour Party Senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South, Linus Okorie was arrested and abducted as alleged. SP Chris Anyanwu, Spokesman of the Command said, in a statement, he issued to newsmen in Abakaliki on Monday, that Okorie was only arrested.
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African agencies on Drug, food regulations brainstorms to create single information database
Some African Drug and Food regulatory agencies are currently in Abuja brainstorming on how to have a single database of information on drug and food regulations on the African continent. The event, which kick-started on Monday, was organized by the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) in collaboration with the Nigeria National Agency for Food and…
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Drug queen who concealed narcotics in travellers’ luggages nabbed at Lagos airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 27-year-old drug queen, Mrs Opoola Mujidat in possession of narcotics concealed in fetish bowls at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja (MMIA), Lagos.
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Plateau Govt to establish agency for administration and control of drugs
The Plateau Government is to establish a drug and commodities management agency to regulate and control drug administration in the state. The Commissioner for Health , Dr Nimkong Lar, made this known while briefing newsmen on Thursday at the Government House in Jos.
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Drug kingpin excretes 95 pellets of heroin in Abuja
A 36-year-old Nigerian, based in Italy, Nwakanma Uche, has excreted 95 pellets of heroin, after he was arrested by operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA). Uche was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, after it was discovered that he had ingested the pellets.
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India police nab six Nigerians over murder case in Mumbai
The men were arrested on May 6 in the Ri-Bhoi district of Lad Umsaw
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CHRISLAND VIDEO: How my 10yrs daughter was raped – Mother narrates what victim told her
They hijacked her and told her to take a substance
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Court refuses Abba Kyari’s bail, sends him to Kuje Prisons
Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, declined to grant the bail application of suspended DCP Abba Kyari. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that the the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had placed sufficient evidence before the court to refuse the bail request.
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Drug kingpin attacks NDLEA operatives in Lagos
Operatives of the NDLEA came under attack on Saturday in Lagos in the course of effecting the arrest of a suspected drug kingpin.