This was contained in a communiqué by the First Ladies after a two-day Drug Prevention, Treatment and Care training.
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He stated this while responding to questions from journalists after a meeting with some French experts on drug supply reduction and law enforcement in his office at the NDLEA National Headquarters, Abuja on Thursday 17th March 2022.
Gen. Marwa who made the call at the University of Abuja while launching the ‘drug free university campaign’ on Wednesday 9th February, 2022, also called for a partnership between the NDLEA and the university system that will allow the agency set up outposts on campuses to further strengthen the authorities in fighting the scourge.
Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that there was no longer a “hiding place for drug traffickers” in Nigeria.
Indeed, to those who know him up close and personal, Marwa is an enigma: humble, self-effacing, industrious, practical, efficient by nature, diligent, always thinking about things he needs to accomplish or how to get ahead on his next assignment, a complete Virgo, if you care to assess him by his Zodiac sign. But in plain terms, he is a case of a man who set out to always make a difference wherever he finds himself; not the kind of difference other men pursue to grandstand, but the type that impacts humanity and makes life easier for people. And of this, his track record is unassailable.
The agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja that the agency also arrested 8,634 suspected drug traffickers during the period, made up of 6,461 males and 547 females.
Tonobok Okowa, the federation’s President, said this in a statement Saturday in Tokyo after AIU’s statement.
Okagbare’s suspension was announced in the early hours of Saturday by The Athletics Integrity Unit in a statement.
The Australian governing body said Kermond returned a positive A-sample for a metabolite of cocaine following a test conducted by Sport Integrity Australia on June 26.
The President buttressed that drug war was dangerous than wars against insurgency and banditry because it targeted three generations for destruction.
A three-judge panel unanimously agreed that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) failed to provide authentic drug-test data upon request by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), although the two-year ban is half the length requested by WADA.
The New York Times however reports that the ban has been cut in half and now stands at two years and states that CAS will confirm the reduction at 3pm.
At a four-day hearing, the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport could deprive Russian athletes of their flag at next year’s Tokyo Olympics.
The World Anti-Doping Agency said on Thursday that Nigeria’s national anti-doping agency remains non-compliant.
World Anti-Doping Agency Vice President, Linda Helleland, has said she will oppose a proposal to reinstate the Russian agency RUSADA if it comes to a vote at a meeting in the Seychelles on Thursday.
The Nairobi lab will operational from early September for blood analyses and other tests including the anti-doping programme of the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya.
Rodchenkov said Thursday that the vast sums of money on offer to top footballers meant they and those around them such as their agents, had a huge financial interest in not risking their careers by being caught doping.
Wada said in view of the death of the All Progressives Congress’ candidate, Abubakar Audu, he should be declared the winner of the botched election being the only surviving candidate with the majority of lawful votes cast in the election held on November 21
Prof. Wale Oladipo, the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, said the Acting Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Umar Fintiri, would not recontest in 2015 if he emerged as winner in the October 11 governorship by-election.