Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has called on the Federal Government to address the root causes of drug abuse...
The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig-Gen. Buba Marwa (retd), on Friday, identified drug abuse as the main driver of insecurity in...
Former President, Muhammadu Buhari, has advised Nigerian youths against drug dependency which would ultimately destroy their future and potential. Buhari who gave the advice on Sunday...
The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on illicit drugs and drug abuse in the country. This followed the...
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday charged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (NDLEA) and its counterparts across Africa to step up the fight against substance abuse...
MTN Foundation has once again been commended for its campaign against drug abuse in the country. The Deputy Director, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Ronke Matuluko,...
A Bauchi based human rights organization, Council for Affirmative Action, has demanded that the Bauchi State Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) as...
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, last week, blamed religious leaders for the divisions, and tensions in the country. We tracked two other stories that kept the...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Tuesday at least 14.3 million people are into drug abuse in Nigeria. In a report...
The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Buba Marwa, declared on Wednesday that no community in Nigeria is free from drug abuse. Marwa,...
The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Buba Marwa, on Wednesday, described Lagos and Oyo States as headquarters of drug abuse in Nigeria....
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Akwa Ibom State Command, has arrested 244 suspects and seized over 600kg of assorted drugs in the last 11...
The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mohammed Buba Marwa, on Friday described drug abuse as a national tragedy and major cause of...
The Kaduna State Bureau for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (KADBUSA), has said 10% of the citizens are on drugs, and are battling drug-related problems. The...
The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mohammed Buba Marwa, says terrorists and kidnappers in Nigeria now demand for drugs as payment...
The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mohammed Buba Marwa, said on Monday at least 30 million Nigerians would be on drugs...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State Chapter, Monday decried the rise in drug abuse and addiction among youths in the state. The State CAN...
Concerned that young people might be pushed into abusing drugs during the COVID-19 lockdown, Nigeria’s Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has launched the ‘I choose...
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has revealed that it destroyed counterfeit drugs worth N3.2bn in the past two years. NAFDAC Director...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday received the report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Elimination of Drug Abuse at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The committee which...
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.), on Thursday urged educators across the country to save the...
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Vanguard against Drug Abuse (VGADA), on Tuesday raised the alarm over the abuse of a popular blood tonic which is now employed by...
Owing to a drug abuse problem in the state, Edo State government on Friday announced plans to build rehabilitation homes for patients in the state. The...
Former Lagos State Military Administrator, Buba Marwa, has responded to a call by Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu for the Federal Government to legalise the growing...
Kano State Police Command, on Friday, seized 303 cartons of tramadol tablets during a raid at No. 157 Miller Road, Bompai in Nassarawa Local Government Area...
As part of efforts to sanitise the system, Kano State Government has launched a survey on the Almajiri school system to address issues of street begging...
Two suspects, Abdul Abubakar Mohammed and Ibrahim Mustapha have been nabbed with 2.927kg of cocaine, by operatives of the Kano state National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)....
I remember with nostalgia how participants at a focused group discussion held recently in Lagos, bemoaned infestation of our nation by social problems perpetrated consciously and...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it is committed to discourage drug abuse by stopping the approval of alcohol packaged...
The rate of drug abuse in Adamawa and other states around the country is on the increase as addicts increasing resort to use of embalming oil,...
Resident doctor at Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Dr Raliat Akerele has called on government to take enlightenment campaign on the dangers of drug abuse to schools across...
Reacting to the recent ban on the importation of cough syrups with codeine, the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Tuesday called on the Federal Government to enact...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reminded the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the National Economic Council (NEC) is made up of 11 PDP governors who...
Senate President Bukola Saraki has lamented the dangers abuse of drugs pose in the country and said that it was high time the menace was addressed....
The Senate has raised the alarm over the consumption of over three million bottles of codeine syrup daily in Kano and Jigawa States. It has also...
Though it may sound unthinkable due to the seemingly inseparable bond they share but incoming reports suggests that Angelina Jolie has filed for a divorce from...
