The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has apprehended a 32-year-old businessman, Obinna Igbo, for alleged importation and the sale of fake Amanta Forte, an unregistered anti-malarial drug. The suspect has been arraigned before a Federal High Court on four counts of unlawful importation, possession, sale, and distribution of fake Amanta Forte soft gel (Artemether …

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has dismissed as baseless reports that the suspended Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT) commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari has been attacked by fellow inmates at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja. At the resuming hearing of his trial for alleged drug trafficking at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) may have made a breakthrough in the investigation of alleged drug dealings involving the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team, at the time it was led by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. The Agency announced on Monday that it has arrested Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu, the suspected billionaire drug baron behind …