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Emmanuel Onwubiko: When Legislators Debate Drugs And Sex

28Feb

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Emmanuel Onwubiko: When Legislators Debate Drugs And Sex

The national legislature in Abuja has been busy embarking on high profile policy interactive sessions in different parts of Nigeria on the vexed twin societal evils of hard drugs and trafficking for sexual enslavement. Kano and Benin City have played host to two of such important interfaces. These topics of sex and drugs reminds me of a track in one popular dance hall songs of the mid-eighties which asked that ‘people should talk about sex’. Afterall sex and drugs when combined is rated above a mere billion dollar business. Sex and illicit drugs are multi Billion Dollars industry collectively. Both of these two thematic areas touches the fundamentals of our social life as a nation especially because the universal fact that illicit drugs and sex affects the youth’s population. The ...

NDLEA Seizes Illicit Drugs Concealed In Noodles Cartons

16Feb

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NDLEA Seizes Illicit Drugs Concealed In Noodles Cartons

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, Adamawa State Command, has intercepted 1.31 tonnes of illicit drugs which were concealed in noodles’ cartons. Yakubu Kibo, the NDLEA’s state Commander, who made the disclosure shortly after displaying the exhibits on Thursday in Yola, said the drugs were valued at N19 million. Kibo said that one suspect was arrested where the drugs were intercepted in Mubi. He said: “On February 7, 2018, a team of NDLEA operatives cordoned off one electronics shop opposite Mubi General Hospital. “After thorough search, 183 cartons of Indomie noodles were discovered. The cartons were opened and they contained 1.316 tonnes of Tramadol 225 mg tablets, valued at N19 million. “A suspect and owner of the shop was arrested in connection with the seized sub...

619 Suspected Drug Traffickers Arrested In Kano

22Dec

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619 Suspected Drug Traffickers Arrested In Kano

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says the agency has arrested 619 suspected drug traffickers in Kano State in 2017. The state Commandant of the agency, Alhaji Hamza Umar, disclosed this on Friday in Kano at a news conference organised by the command in collaboration with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). Umar said that the suspects were arraigned before the Federal High Court in the state where 165 of them were convicted to serve various prison terms. According to him, the command also intercepted more than 17.1 tons of illicit drugs across the state, including over 344.9 grams of Cocaine and over 88.2 grams of Heroine, within the period under review. “From January to date, we also intercepted over 5.5 tons of Canavis and over 11 tons of Rochi,” the NDLEA commandant ...

Nasarawa Sponsors 12 Teachers For Christian Pilgrimage

14Dec

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Nasarawa Sponsors 12 Teachers For Christian Pilgrimage

Mr Musa Aloko, the Executive Secretary, Nasarawa State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board says 12 Christian religious studies teachers are part of the 104 intending pilgrims to perform the 2017 exercise to Israel. Aloko disclosed this at orientation exercise for the intending pilgrims from the state on Thursday in Lafia. He said that the contingents from the state consist of 100 government sponsored and four self-sponsored intending pilgrims. He said the teachers were sponsored by the state government for holy pilgrimage to enrich them spiritually and enhance their capacity to instill good moral discipline on the students. The executive secretary pointed out that the gesture was the first by the state government to secondary school teachers in the state. “Four teachers were se...

Five Suspected Drug Peddlers Arrested In Sokoto

17Nov

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Five Suspected Drug Peddlers Arrested In Sokoto

The Sokoto Police Command said it had arrested five suspected drug peddlers with different substances. The suspects are Abubakar Bala, 26, Musa Muhammad, 40, Hussani Zayyana, 22, Tanimu Uda, 22, and Tashar Makka, 22. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Muhammad Abdulkadir, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto on Friday. Speaking through Mr Ibrahim Abaras, the command’s Public Relations Officer, Abdulkadir alleged that the suspects were apprehended with various quantities of illicit substances. He said police arrested Bala while in possession of 15 bottles of Tutoling syrup, while Muhammad had 80 wraps of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp and 170 Diazepam tablets on him. The Commissioner said that Zayyana and Makka were arrested while in possession of...

Nigeria Customs Arrests Truck Conveying Contraband Clothing Materials Worth N17m

17Nov

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Nigeria Customs Arrests Truck Conveying Contraband Clothing Materials Worth N17m

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has arrested a truck conveying 340 bales of clothing materials worth N17 million in Sokoto, an official has said. Mr Nasir Ahmad, NCS Controller in-charge of Kebbi/Sokoto/Zamfara Command, made the development known to newsmen in Sokoto on Friday. He said the seized items were among the list of contraband by the Federal Government. Ahmad said the seizure was made on Nov. 13 along Sokoto-Illela road. While displaying the seized items and the truck, he said that the suspects abandoned the truck when they sighted the NCS patrol team. Ahmad said “ the seized contraband has duty paid value of N17 million.” He said the “smuggled items are dangerous to health.’’ He also said that the command handed over 52.2kg of Indian-hemp it intercepted al...

13Oct

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Reversing Nigeria’s Youthful Misfortune

There are signs in the horizons near us to show that the Nigerian Youth as a collective is in the throes of hydra- headed misfortunes. Take for example the case of the last five years since the dreaded armed Islamic terror group known as boko haram embarked on destructive campaign of terror in the Northern parts of Nigeria. What do you see? The bulk of the top fighters and casualties of these spate of attacks are mostly youthful members of the populace. At the last count, over 30,000 Nigerians have died as a result of bombing attacks masterminded by the boko haram terrorists. Let’s even look at the profile of those who were killed here in Abuja on the many occasions that the youth-led boko haram terrorists struck in places like the United Nations Abuja office, the Nigeria Polic...

Jonathan, CJN, Fayose, Bello, Okonjo-Iweala, Ex-Govs Under EFCC Probe

6Sep

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Jonathan, CJN, Fayose, Bello, Okonjo-Iweala, Ex-Govs Under EFCC Probe

Names of some high profile individuals being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have been revealed. The Punch, in a report, said a list it obtained contained the names of Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen; Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State; his predecessor and the current Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; and the immediate past Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The names are in the list of high-profile cases involving over 100 politically-exposed persons and top-ranking public officers still being investigated by the EFCC as of August 2017. The list was recently sent by the EFCC to the Attorney General of the Federation and M...

NDLEA Arrests 3 Indian Hemp Farmers In Gombe

13Aug

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NDLEA Arrests 3 Indian Hemp Farmers In Gombe

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday said it had arrested three farmers in Kulani village, Balanga Local Government Area of Gombe State for allegedly cultivating 160 Kilograms of Indian hemp. The NDLEA Commandant in the state, Mr Aliyu Adole, told newsmen in Gombe on Saturday. Adole said many farmers were involved in the cultivation of the weed in the state and the agency had been on their trail. He said the agency had been monitoring the suspects before their arrest, adding, “This morning, my boys went to the bush and brought them with the exhibits.” The commandant said the agency would continue to comb villages in the state to apprehend those involved in the cultivation of Cannabis. He called on elders and leaders of communities in the state to pre...

Photos Of Kidnappers Arrested By Bauchi Police Command & Money Recovered

16Mar

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Photos Of Kidnappers Arrested By Bauchi Police Command & Money Recovered

In order to further stem the tide of kidnappings, Rape and armed banditry in the State. The Command has sustained its operations relying on actionable intelligence and arrested the following suspects;- ARREST OF SUSPECTED KIDNAPPERS: On the 13/3/2017 following intelligence report, police detectives attached command Anti-kidnapping unit arrested the following syndicate: Umar Yusuf male, aged 30yrs of Jinbin Village in Ganjuwa LGA of Bauchi State. Mustapha Abbas male, aged 25yrs of the same address. Suspects conspired and stormed the residence of one Ahmadu Dadin male of Jinbim village with offensive weapons, beat up his family members and demanded ransom of Five Hundred Thousand (N500,000) or they will come back and kidnap his entire family members. Discreet investigation led to the ar...