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In an audacious raid by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in Lagos and Rivers states, a multi-billion-naira worth of shipments of Methamphetamine and Loud, a strong synthetic strain of cannabis meant for distribution during the Christmas and New Year festive season, concealed in automobile spare parts imported from Canada, have been intercepted.

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A non governmental Organisaton, Balm for the Bruised Foundation, (BFBF) has celebrated the efforts of the wife of the Anambra State Governor, Mrs. Nonye Soludo in her fight against substance abuse. In a release jointly signed by Princess-Ekwi Ajide, Chief Executive Officer of the organisaton and Augustine Agwulonu, the Secretary, the organisaton appreciated the noble work the Anambra State’s First …

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A 20-year-old hair stylist, identified as Josephine Odunu and a dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, 30, have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for selling and distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to school students and at social parties in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.

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By Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa. The Bayelsa state Governor, Seriake Dickson said his administration is poised towards reducing fake and unwholesome drugs in the state. Governor Dickson gave the assurances Monday in Yenagoa while declaring open the first pharmaceutical trade fare to be organized by a Government own drugs mart in Nigeria. According to the Governor, the Bayelsa state drugs distribution …

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Folake Sokoya The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a man and his son for selling Tramadol and other hard drugs to primary and secondary school pupils in Itire, Lagos. The father, Ibrahim Sheu and his 23 year old son, Franku Ibrahim, were arrested last Friday after the officials of the Office of …

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Folake Sokoya Lagos Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has said the youth must desist from sales and use of illicit drugs, unlawful possession and use of firearms, and cultism or incur the wrath of the law. Imohimi made this declaration on Wednesday in view of the recent development of some youths in the Aguda Surulere, Itire and Akala-Mushin areas of …

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The Lagos Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi on Wednesday January 24,2018 recovers over N200m worth of drugs at Akala area of Mushin through community partnership. The CP who disclosed this during a town hall meeting hosted by the Area J Police Command, Aka said that every community has its challenges which the police will not relent in solving. “During …

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The Police in Lagos yesterday destroyed heaps of hard drugs recovered in the Lagos metropolis. Commissioner of Police Lagos State, Mr. Imohimi Oluwole Edgal, answering questions from journalist following exhibits recovered from suspect arrested at Mushin in Lagos yesterday warned Nigerians to desist from the bad habit of drug addiction. Also at the site was Chairman Lagos State Task Force, …

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A new drug combination— tetrahydrouridine (THU) and decitabine — shows great promise in the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). Results from a phase 1/2 clinical trial suggest this novel oral therapy was well tolerated and produced the desired effect on red blood cells by increasing fetal hemoglobin (HbF) levels twofold. “We’ve known the molecular basis for this disease for …

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