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A 19-year-old male student of the Federal University of Otuoke (FUO), Bayelsa State, identified as Job Alawari-Kei, has reportedly died from an illicit drug overdose. The deceased, a 300-level student of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, allegedly collapsed and died after consuming a drug known locally as Colos. According to students …

With increasing misuse of antimicrobial drugs, medical experts have raised the alarm over increasing deaths associated with antimicrobial resistance, AMR, across the world and Nigeria inclusive. Currently, findings by the World Health Organisation, WHO, show that Antimicrobial Resistance, AMR, otherwise known as drug resistance is currently posing a threat to …

Jos –  Following the recommendation by the Chairman, of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Gen Buba Marwa, that local committees are formed to sensitise citizens on the dangers of illicit drugs to curb abuse, during a recent visit to the Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, the Chairman of …

Economically engaging the youths is key to tackling Nigeria’s insecurity and other social vices, says Mr. Tein Jack-Rich, a presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Jack-Rich stated this on Sunday in Owerri, in an interview with newsmen. The 47-year-old Rivers-born businessman said youths had been forced to go …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Bayelsa State Command, says it has arrested 59 illicit drug dealers in the state. The agency also said it removed 98.902 kilogrammes of different types of drugs from circulation in the state. The spokesman for the command, Mr. Osakwe Ikenna, said in a statement …

About 80 percent of Nigerian women and girls, who arrive Italy, are sex trafficking victims, according to Vatican news agency, Agenzia Fides. “Hundreds of thousands of people fall victim to human trafficking every year in Africa alone,” said Monsignor Ignatius Ayau Kaigama at an international conference against human trafficking organised …