Devdiscourse News Desk | Abuja | Updated: 02-02-2021 01:02 IST | Created: 02-02-2021 01:02 IST
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Mohammed Buba Marwa, the new chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Nigeria, would excel in the position, said Oliver Stolpe, the country representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Monday, according to a report by The Cable.
The new chairman has cautioned illicit drug cultivators, exporters, traffickers, and customers against foul practices in the country.
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Stolpes on the commissioning of the new chairman said that it would emerge as a positive sign and would renew the confidence of the world in Nigeria s drug control capability.
UNODC assures NDLEA of support, hails Marwa’s appointment
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NDLEA boss, Buba Marwa(right) and UNODC’s Country Representative to Nigeria, Mr. Oliver Stolpe, during the visit to NDLEA headquarters.
By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, has promised to deepen its relationship with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, under its new Chairman/Chief Executive, Gen. Buba Marwa(retd).
The promise was made on Monday in Abuja, when the UN body’s Country Representative to Nigeria, Mr. Oliver Stolpe, paid a courtesy visit to the headquarters of the agency to congratulate Marwa on his recent appointment as Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA.
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Spike in cult killings in South-West
Published 31 January 2021
GANGS unleashing violence with guns, knives and axes freely deployed, continue to plague towns and cities across the South-West, with devastating consequences for families and neighbourhoods. As cultists of different descriptions unleash terror on residents who vulnerably rely on the operationally defective and poorly-motivated police to save them, preventing gang-related violence should be a major priority of the state governors in the region. And this is the time to act decisively.
In a rather pathetic case, a 60-year-old plantain seller identified simply as ‘Iya Oluso’ was slaughtered recently in Ibadan, Oyo State during a clash between two rival cult groups who locked horns in a supremacy battle. The sexagenarian reportedly died from complications arising from a bullet fired by one of the combatants. Another supremacy battle between the Aiye and Eiye cults in the Aguda area of Surulere, Lagos State, on January