The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed 1.6 million kilogrammes of illicit drugs in Ogun. The narcotic commander of Ogun NDLEA, Tijana Rabe hosted the event on Saturday at Ipara town along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. She said the exercise was the first of its kind in Ogun, highlighting the command’s progress in the fight against drug abuse. The …

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a large consignment of illicit drugs worth N18 million from suspected smugglers at the Mfum Border in Cross River State. The seizure was carried out by the Cross River/Calabar Free Trade Zone and Akwa Ibom Area Command of the NCS and involved 659 units of controlled pharmaceutical substances. The items have been handed …

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Area 2 Command, Onne, has seized various drugs, tablets and codeine-based cough syrups valued at N11.2 billion at the Onne Ports in Rivers State. The Customs Area Comptroller, Area 2 Command, Onne, Mohammed Babandede, disclosed this at a news briefing at the command’s headquarters in Onne, Eleme Local Government Area of the State on Thursday, …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has declared an ex-beauty queen, Ms Aderinoye Queen Christmas also known as Ms Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, wanted after she allegedly escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence, when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment at Oral Estate, Lekki on 24 January, following credible intelligence she deals in illicit substances. The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria …

Illicit sales and distribution of substandard and falsified medicines are a global threat that present huge public health challenges to national medicines regulatory authorities in developed and developing countries. They also pose catastrophic consequences on the local pharmaceutical industry. at the 21st NECCI PR Roundtable in Lagos on Thursday, the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug …