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Millions of Nigerians abuse drugs, says Marwa

Ihesiulo Grace 22 June 2021 0

IDRIS AHMED, LOKOJA National Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drugs law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier-General Muhammed Buba Marwa (Rtd), has disclosed that no fewer than 14.3 million young and adult Nigerians from the ages of 16 to 64 years abuse hard substances. He

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FG attributes upsurge in spouse killings to drug abuse

Ihesiulo Grace 29 February 2020 0

The Federal Government has attributed the upsurge in incessant killings of spouses and other acts of murder in the country to drugs abuse. The Permanent Secretary, Special Services in the office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mrs Amina Shamaki, stated this on Friday in Kano. She disclosed this during the 2020 […]

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Drugs abuse in Nigeria: Failure of statecraft

Ihesiulo Grace 17 May 2018 0

Why do people do drugs? This is always the first question that pops up whenever one ponders on the menace. Addicts are likely to flood one with a million and one reasons. Some just want to be ‘high’, to be serenaded to some realm of bliss or what some would prefer to call cloud nine. […]

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