By C. Don Adinuba With the burial rites of Professor Ernest Ugo starting on Tuesday, July 22, at the Amadeo Events Centre in Enugu, the curtain is almost drawn on one of Nigeria’s most humane and selfless citizens ever. Ugo grabbed national headlines when he informed a scientific conference of homeopathic doctors of the successful…
By Femi Anamelechi The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Adewale Adeniyi, said Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is committed to fostering and safeguarding public health through robust enforcement actions. He disclosed this on Friday, 11 July 2025, during the formal handover of 25 containers of seized unregistered and prohibited pharmaceutical products to the National Agency for Food…
By Femi Anamelechi His checked baggage contained 17 parcels of methamphetamine weighing 17.5 kg and three parcels of cocaine totaling 3.05 kg, all concealed within bedsheets. A fellow passenger on the Ethiopian Airlines flight, Azu Follygan Kpodar, was also detained after officers discovered 1.25 kg of liquid cocaine hidden in a plastic soap container marked…
By Femi Anamelechi President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the massive achievements of the NDLEA in the fight against illicit drugs and declared that the efforts of the Agency to eradicate illicit drugs demands must be a national movement. President Tinubu pointed this out at 2025 World Drugs Day celebration as he Commended the landmark…
By Femi Anamelechi The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) has promised to make the welfare of his officers, men and women of the Agency his priority to ensure that they are physically and mentally fit to carry out their responsibility of curbing the scourge…
By Femi Anamelechi Operatives of NDLEA barely three weeks after launching a manhunt for a fleeing automobile spare parts dealer, have arrested the criminal Levi Chidiebele Ubodoeze over a recent attempt to export two kilograms of cocaine concealed in vehicle propellers to Angola. Following the seizure of the cocaine consignment at a logistics company in…
By Femi Anamelechi Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo of Anambra State has called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to place greater emphasis on tackling the root causes of counterfeit drug in circulation by scrutinizing the entire pharmaceutical supply chain. Soludo made this call during his visit to the Ogbo…
