Tag Archives: Drug Abuse

As the fight against the menace of drug abuse in the country has the reinvigorated, the Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Brig. Gen Mohammed Buba Marwa (retd) has urged Nigerians to take ownership of the fight as theirs.

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Folake Sokoya Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on drug and substance abuse in the country. Speaking during a courtesy call by the National President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharmacist Ahmed Yakassi, on him at Government House, Ilorin, he said the country is faced with a …

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 Nigeria has recorded a decline in the quantity of illicit drugs seized from circulation within its borders, the statistics of seizures and arrests made by the nation’s anti narcotic agency has shown. Records have also showed that Edo State leads in drug abuse as revealed by quantity of seizure. The latest crime data on drug abuse and enforcement released by …

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