September 19, 2024
Drug Offences

NAFDAC destroyed drugs, counterfeit products worth N3.2 bn in Kano

The National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it destroyed fake drugs and counterfeit products worth N3.2 billion in Kano State in the last two years. Mr Shaba Mohammed, the state’s Coordinator of the Agency, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Kano. Mohammed

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Drug Offences

Take my life instead of destroying my cannabis farm ― Suspect begs NDLEA

A suspected cannabis farmer, Clement Akor, has begged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA to take his life instead of destroying his 10-hectare cannabis plantation. Akor, a 42 years old father of six children from Enabo village in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State was arrested by the Kogi State command of NDLEA

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Drug Offences

Over $1M worth of cocaine washes up on beach

US Customs and Border Protection agents seized a whopping 78 pounds of cocaine worth more than $1 million after it washed up on a Florida beach, officials said. Last Monday, a beachgoer on Hollywood Beach in Hollywood, Fla., discovered 30 packages containing the massive amount of drugs on the shoreline, according to authorities. The sunbather

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Drug Offences

NDLEA arrests seven suspected drug traffickers in Katsina

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency , Katsina State Command, said it arrested seven drug traffickers between August 18 and August 25, 2020 NDLEA spokesman in Katsina , Mustapha Maikudi , announced the development in a statement on Saturday. He said 73- year -old Umar Abdullahi of Mani Local Government Area of the state was

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Drug Offences

FG commends Nigerian acquittal in Saudi Arabia

The Federal Government has applauded the acquittal of a Nigerian, Ibrahim Abubakar Ibrahim , by a court in Saudi Arabia. He was set free on Thursday by the Saudi authorities after being tried and acquitted on allegations of drug trafficking by three courts. Ibrahim , who was sponsored by the Zamfara State Government to perform

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Drug Offences News

COVID-19: How pandemic is squeezing the Italian mafia

It was a glimpse of a glow of a cigarette behind the shutters of an abandoned house that led Italian police to the crime boss they had been tracking for more than a week. Officers had stopped a man on the street in the remote Calabrian village of Bruzzano Zeffirio, at the southern tip of

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Cross-border Crimes Drug Offences

Longest drug-smuggling tunnel discovered under US-Mexico border

The United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has announced the discovery of the longest drug-smuggling tunnel ever to be found on, or rather, under  the US-Mexican border. The tunnel is more than 1,313 meters long, starting in an industrial section of Tijuana and ending near an area which houses several warehouses in San Diego. The Washington Post reports that

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Drug Offences

Letter to Ihedioha: Attack on my brother by NDLEA was a murder attempt not arrest

It is most unfortunate, howbeit inexplicable, that in spite of the fact that these officers were armed and greatly out-numbered my brother, his arrest ended up with deep life-threatening machete cuts all over his body. Making the arrest appear more like a case of attempted murder, rather than a mere arrest. It was expected that

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