The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) rtd. Col. Mustapha Abdallah has emerged as the 1st Vice chairman of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (HONLEA) in Africa. HONLEA is the umbrella body of all African countries’ Drug Law Enforcement Agencies. The Head of Public Affairs, Mr Jonah Achema who disclosed this ...

NDLEA operatives on a cannabis farm   The Gombe State Command of National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)  has vowed to deal with persons cultivating Indian hemp in the state. Mr Aliyu Adole, Gombe State Commander of NDLEA, said this in Gombe on Wednesday during an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said ...

NDLEA operatives The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Bayelsa Command, has arrested 105 persons while 27.35 kg of illicit drugs were seized in the area between January and June. Bayelsa NDLEA Commander, Mr Abdullahi Abdul, gave the figure at a news briefing to commemorate the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking  ...

Minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama Foreign Affairs Ministry says its silent diplomatic efforts in the past few weeks culminated in the release of Zainab Aliyu and Ibrahim Abubakar arrested by Saudi authority for drug related offences. The ministry said this in a statement by its Acting Spokesperson, Mr Friday Akpan, on Thursday in Abuja ...

DG NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has denounced a newspaper report that 70 per cent of medicines in Nigeria were fake. A press statement by Prof. Moji Adeyeye, Director General of the agency on Friday, said that the false report was published by Vanguard Newspaper. Adeyeye ...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday embarked on a cross-border roadshow to sensitise people in West African coasts on the ECOWAS National Biometric Identity Card (ENBIC). The five-day campaign which took off at Mile-2 ECOWAS Motor Park, Lagos was also expected to enlighten transporters plying West African coasts on the fight against human ...

SSA to the President on Foreign Relations and the Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa The Federal Government on Friday said that drugs was hidden in the body of Kudirat Afolabi, who was executed in Saudi Arabia on April 1. It said Afolabi was among the 20 persons arrested with drugs hidden in their body parts. The Senior ...

    Lagos CP, Zubairu Muazu The Lagos State Police Command has debunked story making rounds on social media that it will carry out general raiding in the state on Thursday 14 and Friday 15, before elections. The Police Spokesman for the command, CSP Chike Oti, said on Thursday that such information about raid did ...

    The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA), Adamawa Command has expressed concern over high influx of energy drinks into the state. Yakubu Kibo, the Commander of the Agency in the state raised the alarm at a one-day lecture on Leadership Qualities, Good Governance and Effects of Drugs on Society, on Sunday in ...

    The Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug Abuse (PACEDA) has said it will support the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in its war against drug abuse. Chairman of PACEDA, Retired Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, made the promise on Tuesday during an advocacy visit of the committee to the NDLEA headquarters ...