The convicts Yusuf Ahmed, 19 and Salisu Balarabe, 19, were both sentenced after they pleaded guilty to unlawful possession and breach of public peace.
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The convicts, Mallanta Lawal, Lawal Mohammed and Sani Lawali all of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the court for leniency.
The development is contained in a statement by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Tuesday in Abeokuta, the State’s capital.
The defendant is facing a one-count charge of drug trafficking.
The NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement he issued on Sunday in Abuja.
The convicts, Abdulraman Ojoola, 35; and Lukman Rasheed, 23, were sentenced to four months imprisonment each while Ayuba Yusuf, 20, is to spend six months in the custodial centre.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency charged Idowu with trafficking.
Abdulahi Hussiain, the Customs Public Relations Officer, Seme Command, in a statement on Wednesday said the tipper was intercepted in the early hours of Tuesday based on credible intelligence reports.
The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon when a trooper searched a van after stopping it for a moving violation outside Lowell in northwest Indiana.
The 54-year-old ended up drawing against his 51-year-old opponent at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and luckily (for Tyson, anyway), drug testing for marijuana wasn’t a thing.
Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC Director-General, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja
According to the spokesman of the Command, Odigie Charles Efosa, the four persons, including a lady, were arrested on Sunday in different areas of the state with 1,658 grammes of the substance.
In the recent times, there have been calls from different quarters on the need to legalize the use of Marijuana in Nigeria. This legal opinion considers the mischief behind the laws proscribing the production, possession, sale and use of Marijuana and thereafter considers the benefits of legalizing Marijuana in Nigeria.
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.
A recent study from Duke University Medical Center, United States reveals that exposure to cannabis or Tetrahydrocannabinol by men in their child-bearing years alters the genetic profile of their sperm.
The findings came from a number of studies that featured at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience held in San Diego, CA, according to a report by Medical News Today
Nearly a century of marijuana prohibition came to an end Wednesday as Canada became the first major Western nation to legalise and regulate its sale and recreational use.
The spokesman of the command, SP. Ebere Amaraizu, made the announcement in a statement on Saturday in Enugu.
Spokesman of the FCT Command of the agency, Peter Adegbe, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Friday.
The action was contained in a statement issued by Samuel Aruwan, the Special Assistant to Governor Ahmed El-Rufa’i on Media and Publicity