The Commissioner of Police, Nkereuwem Akpan, disclosed this at a news briefing at the state police headquarters in Yenagoa on Wednesday.
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The Controller of the command, Comptroller Olugboyega Peters, revealed this in a statement in Lagos on Thursday.
The judge, Malam Yahaya Mohammed, gave the order after the convict pleaded guilty to the two-count charge.
Iyama told members of the Food and Agriculture Writers Organisation of Nigeria at a stakeholders meeting in Lagos that processing hemp oil was capable of generating huge forex.
Dr. Victor Iyama, the President, Federation of Agricultural Commodity Association of Nigeria, says Nigeria has over 52 agro commodities to enable it earn over $100 billion annually.
The Nigeria Customs Service, Seme Border Area Command has intercepted 1,682 parcels of cannabis sativa (hemp) worth over N25.29 million and concealed in a dead body and a truck.
The Police in Ogun State while carrying out raids on criminal hideouts and black spots across the state have arrested four persons with a deep freezer loaded with weeds suspected to be marijuana.
Sources said Uche died on Thursday, leaving alive only the female student with whom three male students engaged in the wild sex, Onyinyechi Okafor
As part of its fight against smuggling activities around border areas of Ogun State, the state command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted over 1.8 tons of cannabis sativa, popularly known as Indian hemp.
Some drug addicts in Kaduna metropolis have attributed the high rate of drug abuse among youths in the state to unemployment and poor parenting.
This is contained in a statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Magaji Majiya and made available to newsmen in Kano on Monday.
Alhaji Idris Bello, Commander, Kogi State Command of the agency, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lokoja.
Mariam Ibrahim, the Chief Nursing Officer of the Centre, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Friday.
The project officer of the UNODC, Harsheth Lauren Virk, made this known during a public hearing on the need to check the rising menace of pharmaceutical abuse among youths in Nigeria
The syndicate was smashed on February 18, 2018 by operatives attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
Buba Wakawa, the Commander of the agency in the state, disclosed this in Benin on Thursday
The convict, a resident of Oto-Awori in Ijanikin, Lagos, had on November 7 pleaded guilty to a one count charge of trafficking 10.3kg of Cannabis, also known as Indian hemp.
Handing over the items to the NDLEA, the custom’s Controller, Nasir Ahmad, said the illicit substances, which were carefully concealed with wrapped polythene bags, were intercepted on November 10.
Shortly before the exercise, Imohimi told journalists at the Ojota dumpsite that the destruction of the hard drugs marked the beginning of the move by his command to rid the state of the activities of drug peddlers
The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Colonel Hameed Ali, disclosed this on Tuesday in Lagos