The defendant was arraigned before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, on one-count charge of trafficking 450g of canabis sativa (Indian hemp) to which he pleaded guilty.
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Anyawu was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on November 16 on one count of unlawful deal in Cannabis Sativa a.k.a hemp.
Gafar was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency before Justice Chuka Obiozor on a count of drug trafficking.
The defendant, an artisan, is standing trial on a one count of trafficking 546.4kg of Cannabis, also known as hemp.
Abubakar Danraka, Chairman, Abuja Branch of the Association of Hospital Administration Pharmacists of Nigeria, quoted UNODC as reporting.
This followed a motion moved by Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe and six others who called attention of their colleagues to recent alleged security beaches at the airports.
The Federal Government has commended the decision of the Supreme Court of Singapore to free a Nigerian, Adili Ejike, who was earlier sentenced to death for drug trafficking in the country.
Canada’s Fan Wei received the death penalty, similar to Wu Ziping, whose nationality was not given, a court in the southern Chinese city of Jiangmen in Guangdong province said on Tuesday.
The Federal Government on Friday urged the ECOWAS Commission to immediately implement an appropriate structure to check emerging illicit drug threats in the region.
The Federal Government says it will henceforth penalise any airline whose staff collude with baggage handlers to tag names of innocent travelers on bags containing illicit drugs on out-bound flights.
Another Nigerian has been arrested in Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia for allegedly smuggling about 1,138g of cocaine, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa said on Friday.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Niger Command, said it arrested 40 suspected drug traffickers in different parts of the state within the first quarter of 2019.
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday sentenced one Rose Phillips, a 51-year-old mother of seven, to 16 months imprisonment for unlawful dealing in narcotics.
The NDLEA Commander at the airport, Ambrose Umoru, disclosed this while parading the suspects before newsmen in Kano on Thursday.
According to the newspaper, the Nigerians and their Indian accomplice were found in possession of a wide variety of drugs, including cocaine, brown sugar and amphetamine.
She added: “I met a man on Facebook some months ago who lives in Malaysia. He told me while chatting online that he is from my State, Anambra in South East Nigeria. After some months, he proposed marriage and I told him to come to Nigeria to meet with my parents as our custom demands
The NDLEA commander at the Lagos airport, Ahmadu Garba, gave the names of the suspects as Gabriel Chidimma Juliet, 25, caught with 2.900kg of cocaine in a duty free bag; Anagbogu Churchill Okwudili, 48, ingested 47 wraps of cocaine weighing 940 grammes; and Enenchi Jerome Oguejiefor, 36, concealed 5.500kg of cannabis inside fufu
He is staying in Delhi since then and is providing assistance to Afghan nationals in medical treatment. He had come in touch with Jabbar Khan who lured him into drug trafficking,” the official said.
The senior pastor, who spoke with our correspondent at the church’s headquarters along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on condition of anonymity, said he had never seen the name of Akintola on the pay-roll of the pastors in the church. This was even as the church’s top hierarchy in a press release insisted that NDLEA should embark on proper investigation
Our correspondent who visited the pastor’s home on Thursday, discovered that his house, located at Block 326, flat 3 was under lock. Neighbours said they did not know the whereabouts of his wife and child