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Company rebranded tramadol to evade detection at Nigerian ports and borders

Manufacturers of the banned drug, tramadol have deployed a mean to import the banned drug into Nigeria. This was as the company rebranded and changed the name of the drug to tafrodol in order to beat Nigerian border and port officials during importation processes. A leaked letter from the Office of the National Security Adviser…

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Notorious Nigerian drug dealer dies of ovarian cancer at 56

Textile merchant, Monsurat Asabi, popularly known in the Nigerian social circuit as Toyin Igbira, has died of ovarian cancer at age of 56 year old. The mother of three reportedly passed on in the early hours of Saturday at a private hospital in Surulere, Lagos. A toast of Fuji musicians, Igbira was a school dropout…

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‘Stop smoking Indian Hemp’, Gov. Obiano warns police

The Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has warned some personnel of the Nigeria Police and other security outfits who are smoking Indian hemp. Obiano noted that the substance would only damage them instead of helping them as they erroneously believed. He stated this during a lecture organised by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency…

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NDLEA arrests 156 for illicit drug use in Oyo

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Oyo State command said it has arrested a total of 156 suspects comprising 139 male and 17 females for drug related offences. The agency also added that it will ensure fourty- four out of the arrested suspects in the last six months would be convicted. The Commander of the…

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