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We ‘ll support legislation against illicit drugs Consumption – Delta Speaker

Ihesiulo Grace 15 March 2018 0

The Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Sheriff Oborevwori has assured of the House’s support on the legislation on the domestication and enactment of laws to assist in the fight against the consumption of illicit drugs, and its substance in the state. The speaker who made this known to

Crime News

Customs intercepts four 40 foot containers of Tramadol other drugs

Ihesiulo Grace 12 February 2018 0

The Apapa Area command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted four 40-foot containers carrying 2250 cartons of prohibited milligrams of Tramadol tablets and other regulated pharmaceutical products. According to the Area Controller, Comptroller Jibrin Musa, the drugs which were from India were imported by one Villa Gold Pharmacy. Musa who briefed journalists on the

News Nigeria

Foundation donates drugs to Kano State Govt

Ihesiulo Grace 29 December 2017 0

A Kano based foundation Na Ma’ajin Watari Foundation has donated drugs to the Kano State government as part of its contribution to the state’s health sector. Presenting the drugs to the state government at Murtala Muhammad Specialist hospital on Thursday, chairman of the foundation, Abba Ahmad Hakimin Kabo said that his foundation deems it necessary […]

Features

Patients hit by shortage of drugs as prices soar

Ihesiulo Grace 11 December 2017 0

….Mental illness and cancer sufferers forced to wait Shortages of at least 100 drugs have forced NHS officials to approve temporary price rises Cancer patients and people with severe mental illness are going without essential medicines because of shortages that have cost the NHS £180m (about N66.6m) in six months. At least 100 drugs have […]

Abuja Times

Abuja residents commend FCT minister over FHSS

Ihesiulo Grace 6 December 2017 0

Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have again commended the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Muhammad Bello, on the efforts and improvement of Federal Health Service Scheme (FHSS) programme. The residents noted that contrary to the wrong implementation of Federal Government programmes in the past, which the present FCT administration has

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6 NDLEA staff face sack threat in Adamawa

Ihesiulo Grace 22 November 2017 0

The national headquarters of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has queried its Yola Command over an illegal operation carried out by six of its staff against a patent medicine store located at No 10 Ibadan Street behind Jimeta Shopping Complex in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. The query followed a letter of petition […]

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54.244 metric tons of drugs destroyed in Kano

Ihesiulo Grace 7 November 2017 0

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has set ablaze 54.244 metric tons of drugs confiscated from drug peddlers in the state. Unlike other states where the major concern is cannabis sativa, the trend in Kano is more complex in that seizure of multiple drugs with all of them in considerable quantities, are recorded almost […]

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We recover 10 tons of drugs, prosecute 300 suspects yearly in Lagos – NDLEA

Ihesiulo Grace 31 October 2017 0

Joy Anyim The Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) boss for the Lagos State Command in Lagos Sule Aliyu, said that the agency recovers 10 tons of drug and prosecute 300 suspects yearly. Aliyu who stated this on Tuesday during a courtesy visit to the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja said the agency will keep […]

Health News

Fake drugs now threat to global public health – NAFDAC

Ihesiulo Grace 12 October 2017 0

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has raised the alarm over the health implications of substandard and falsified medical products, describing it as a threat to global public health. Acting Director-General of NAFDAC, Mr. Ademola Mogbojuri, who raised the alarm, said the health implications of consumption of fake drugs and […]

Crime

50 People Arrested With 48 Bags Of Drugs In Lagos(photo)

Ihesiulo Grace 10 October 2017 0

A Joint enforcement operation by operatives of the Lagos State police command and the task force at the weekend, led to the arrest of 50 suspected criminals and the recovery of 48 bags of illicit drugs. The arrests were made during the ongoing state-wide enforcement operation tagged ‘Eradication of Criminal Hideouts’ carried out around the […]

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FG vows to ban sale of drugs in open market

Ihesiulo Grace 12 August 2017 0

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said, the Federal Government is determined to stop the sale of drugs in open markets in the country at the end of 2018. Adewole made this known on Saturday, when he visited the site for the construction of a Pharmaceutical Coordinated Wholesale Centre at Oba, near Onitsha […]

Crime

Medical doctor gets drugged, robbed by lover

Ihesiulo Grace 12 February 2017 0

The operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a lady in Agbor, Delta state, for drugging her man friend, a medical doctor, in a hotel in Ojodu area of Lagos and carting away his car, laptop and mobile phone.   The lady, Mitchel Harrold, 37, from Warri, Delta […]

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NDLEA seizes drugs worth N4bn at Lagos airport

Ihesiulo Grace 12 December 2016 0

The Chairman/chief executive officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah( rtd), said that the agency’s counter-narcotic measures at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos had led to the interception of the largest quantity of ephedrine with a total weight of 83.390kgs. The ephedrine which was concealed in female

Crime News

NDLEA convicts 8, 673 for drug offences

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2015 0

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has convicted 8,637 drug offenders in the past five years. The Chairman/Chief Executive of the Agency, Ahmadu Giade, who said that the convictions will serve as a deterrence to drug traffickers, further disclosed that the agency had maintained an impressive annual average conviction of 1,727 since 2010. Spokesperson […]

Editorial

Alarm over Drug Resistant Typhoid

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2015 0

Recently, researchers at Welcome Trust, a British non-profit organisation raised alarm at the increasing antibiotic-resistant typhoid across Africa and Asia, which is currently posing a major global health threat. The researchers, who have been tracking the hard-to-treat infection, say it is replacing regular typhoid in many countries. Following analysed bacterial samples

Entertainment

Drug and Alcohol Use and Dependency  (Part 1)

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2015 0

The use and abuse of drugs are serious issues that cannot just be wished away or ignored. If left untreated, the use and abuse can develop into full scale drug dependence. For this reason, it is important to recognize early, the signs and symptoms of drug and alcohol abuse among your peers. Most times, alcoholics […]

Editorial

Will Nigerians Learn from the Indonesian Executions?

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2015 0

Barring last minute shift or change of mind, four Nigerian drug convicts will, alongside five others from Australia, France, Brazil and the Philippines, be executed by firing squad by the Indonesian authorities anytime from now. In spite of spirited efforts to discourage Nigerians from drug trafficking, many still persist in it, thus embarrassing family, friends […]

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Kano State Gov. Charge NDLEA to Prosecute Drug Dealers

Ihesiulo Grace 23 April 2015 0

Kano state governor Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso has charged the NDLEA in the state to prosecute any person found with dangerous and hard drugs in the state. The governor who stated this during an occasion where he set ablaze fake and contraband drugs worth millions of naira called on district heads to be vigilant and […]