Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos and Ogun state has sentenced six drug traffickers to a total of One Hundred and Fifty Six (156) years imprisonment for offences bordering on drug dealing, transportation, and conspiracy to transport illicit substances filed against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11
As tempers run high over the aftermath of the just concluded general elections in country, there are covert plans by yet unnamed persons to stage violent actions that might disrupt peace and order in the country, the Department of State Service (DSS) has alerted.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11
The Department of State Services (DSS) has revealed that the Service, in a joint operation with sister security agencies in Kogi State on Sunday, 26th March 26, 2023, had intercepted a six man alleged criminal gang at Gegu Beki, along the Lokoja-Abuja Road.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11
Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), has commended members and leaders of the House of Representatives for rejecting yet another attempt to push through a bill to decriminalise cannabis cultivation, sale and use in Nigeria on the floor of the Green Chamber of the National Assembly on Thursday 23rd March.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (NDLEA) Director of Operations and General Investigation, Mr S B Gadzama, on Wednesday, received some officials of UNODC and INL led by Melinda Mancebo.
By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)
There is an exchange of gun shot between the police and military men near INEC state office in jalingo, Taraba State capital on Monday.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11
No fewer than One Million Two Hundred and Five Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty (1, 205, 260) pills of opioids were seized in two interdiction operations in Kogi and Gombe state by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, just as anti-narcotic officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos disrupted the activities of a drug syndicate that operates between Nigeria, East Africa, and Europe, with the arrest of two members of the cartel.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has assured candidates seeking to participate in its ongoing recruitment exercise that concerted efforts are being made to resolve challenges they are facing on the application portal with a view to make the process seamless any moment from now.
The Director, Drug Demand Reduction, NDLEA, Dr Ngozi Madubuike, leads other officers of the Agency to the closing ceremony of a 3-day grassroots sensitization and awareness campaign on the dangers of illicit drugs in the FCT for secondary school students, in collaboration with Nababa Global Concept Ltd, on Thursday, March 9th, 2023, at the Merit House, Maitama, Abuja. NNL.
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11
A rehabilitated ex-fighter of the Boko Haram terror group, Alayi Madu and the traditional ruler of Kajola, a border community between Ondo and Edo state, Baale Akinola Adebayo are among 37 persons arrested over 2.2 tons of illicit drugs seized by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja, Lagos and in raids across 12 states in the past week.
By Jane Okoro
Fatima Waziri-Azi, the Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), says the agency rescued three babies who were allegedly rented out by their mothers for alms begging in return for N3,000 daily per child.
By Ankeli Emmanuel (In Sokoto State)
The Muslim Solidarity Forum, Sokoto State chapter have expressed fears over possible violence in the Governorship election scheduled to hold this Saturday, March 11th but which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has noe postponed to Saturday March 18.
