Illicit Drugs

By Hassan Sale The Kano State Government Task Force Committee on Motor Parks and Other Public Places has confiscated illicit, expired and counterfeit drugs valued at over N1.5bn from the Kanawa Pharmaceutical Coordinated Wholesale Centre…
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Barely three years after he was arrested, prosecuted and sentenced to two years imprisonment for dealing in illicit drugs, an 80-year-old grandpa Jeremiah Isaiah Nkanta has again been nabbed by operatives of the National Drug Law…
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered and dismantled a social media network used to distribute illicit substances packaged as imported Christmas cookies and snacks, with two masterminds arrested and…
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207 containers destroyed in coordinated operation The National Security Adviser (NSA) ,Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has said the Federal Government is prioritising the fight against illicit drugs due to its far-reaching impact on national…
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About six million pills of opioids namely: tamol 225mg, tapentadol 225mg and carisoprodol 225mg as well as 332,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup with a combined street value of Six Billion Five Hundred and Twenty-Four Million Naira…
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Two octogenarians: an 80-year-old grandpa, Ayuba Ashiru and an 82-year-old grandma, Mrs. Uloma Uchechi Sunday, as well as her daughter, Chisom Uchechi, 32, top the list of suspects arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law…
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 22-year-old supplier of illicit substances to bandits, Muhammad Mohammed, in Kano. The suspect was arrested by NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bichi-Kano road while…
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About 500 suspected thugs and drug peddlers have been apprehended by the Kano State Taskforce on Peace Restoration and Youth Rehabilitation The taskforce Chairman, who is also the commissioner for science and technology, Dr Yusuf…
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has destroyed heaps of illicit drugs weighing about 1.6 million kilograms of assorted illicit substances seized across Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States, in what is till date the largest volume of…
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After 17 years of hiding in the dark to ship illicit drugs worth billions of naira across the world, the reign of a wanted 59-year-old drug baron Ogbonnaya Kevin Jeff has been brought to a halt following his arrest by operatives of the…
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