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Drug abuse: NDLEA seals 3 patient
medicine stores, arrest 108 in Katsina
By Bashir Bello within the last three sativa was seized, which five are undergoing
K
months, also said the 48.159kgs of psychotropic long term counseling.”
I L O R I N —
GOVERNOR
ATSINA State agency has arrested about substances (Diazepam, Sani called for the
Abdulfatah Ahmed of
command of National 108 suspects and seized Exol and Tramadol) were cooperation of government
Kwara State said,
Drug Law Enforcement 101.71kg of illicit drugs. also seized, while 49.7 litres agencies, NGOs,
yesterday, that his
Agency, NDLEA, Sani said of the 108 of cough syrup with traditional and religious
administration has
yesterday, sealed off three suspects arrested, four were codeine (translating to 497 institutions, parents and
disbursed about N1
patient medicine stores as females, while 11 were bottles) were also teachers to succeed in the
billion to 500 smallholders
farmers and 40
part of effort to reduce drug students of tertiary impounded. The total of fight against illicit drug
trafficking and abuse in the institutions and secondary seizure is thus 101.71 trafficking and abuse.
commercial farmers in the
state.
schools, with three of them kilogrammes.
He noted that “the threat
state.
The State Commander of underage.
“Ninety suspects were of drug abuse is real,
Besides, he said, 381
NDLEA, Maryam Sani, She said: “During the referred to our drug especially in the Northern
kilometres of rural roads
who disclosed this while at period under review, demand reduction unit for region. It is a great danger
will be rehabilitated in
a briefing on it activities 53.5521kgs of cannabis counselling session, out of to our youths.”
2018 under the Rural
Access and Agricultural
Marketing Project,
RAAMP, in partnership
with the World Bank and
the Federal Government.
Speaking at the
opening of the 2nd
CORONATION: From left— Oba of Ikateland, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi; Obateru of
Egun, Oba Hakeem Adeoriyomi Oyebo; Elejigbo of Langbasa, Oba Hafeez Olakunle Badiru, and the
Adegboruwa of Igbogboland, Oba Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, at the grand finale coronation
reception ceremony of Oba Hafeez Olakunle Badiru in Ajah, Lagos.
Don’t set S-South against S-West, Bode George
warns PDP stakeholders
LEADING contestant to
the national
chairmanship of Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP,
By Marie-Therese
Nanlong
JOS—AS tension mounts
in Kanam Local
Government Area of
Plateau State over
rumoured cancellation of
last Saturday’s All
Progressives Congress,
APC, councillorship
primaries, party leaders in
the locality have appealed
for calm, saying there was
no such plan in the offing.
It will be recalled that the
By Boluwaji
Obahopo
LOKOJA—KOGI State
internally-generated
revenue, IGR, has hit N1
billion monthly, Executive
Chairman of Kogi State
Internal Revenue Service,
KGIRS, Dr. Yakubu Oseni,
has stated.
Oseni said this, yesterday
in Lokoja, while speaking
with members of the
By Bartholomew
Madukwe
Chief Olabode George, has
Rumours of APC primaries'
cancellation raise tension in Plateau
party’s councillorship
primaries, conducted to
produce candidates for the
February 2018 local
government elections, had
been marred by complains,
despite the party’s claim
that the exercise was a
success.
Rumours from Kanam
council have it that the
party is set for a repeat of
the exercise in the locality,
when names of successful
candidates had already
be sent to the party’s
Kogi's IGR hits N1bn monthly
Correspondent Chapel of
Nigeria Union of
Journalists, NUJ, Kogi
State chapter, adding
“before we took over, the
state was generating N300
million monthly; but now
we have hit one billion
naira on the average, after
blocking all the leakages.”
He said though the state
governor gave the agency
N3 billion monthly targets,
but the recession in the
appealed to elders and
other stakeholders of the
party not to allow the
election set the South-
South and the South-West
zones against each other.
headquarters in Jos.
However, the Deputy
Speaker of the state
House of Assembly, Mr.
Saleh Yipmong, the
immediate past Deputy
Speaker, Yusuf Gagdi,
and a party chieftain,
Amos Gizo, who are from
the local government,
yesterday, insisted that
there will be no such
thing, as they were only
expecting the
chairmanship primaries,
billed for this Saturday.
country was one of the
reasons the agency was yet
to meet its target.
He, however, decried the
nonchalant attitude of the
citizen towards tax
payment, saying only
400,000 persons,
including both the state
and local government
workers, are paying tax;
half of the figure, he said,
were not consistent in
their payment.
He made the appeal
while addressing party
stakeholders at PDP state
secretariat in Calabar, Cross
River State, Tuesday, in
continuation of his
nationwide campaign tour.
He said the decision of
PDP leadership to throw the
chairmanship and deputy
chairmanship elections
open to all comers from the
two zones was like pitching
brothers against one
another other.
He added that the
situation could have been
avoided by encouraging
dialogue and negotiation to
arrive at a mutuallybeneficial
decision on
where each of the positions
should go, without rancour.
He said the people of the
South-West and South-
South zones had always
worked together for the
good of the country,
adding that this election
should not be allowed to
divide them.
Responding, the state
chairman of the party,
Chief Ntufam Inok,
commended George for
his unflinching loyalty
and support for the party
during its crisis.
He noted that some
aspirants had visited the
state, stressing that it was
only George, who came to
the party secretariat to
meet with the people.
540 Kwara farmers get N1bn
By Demola
Akinyemi
Bounce News wins
AppsAfrica award
BOUNCE News App
has been declared
winner of the 2017
AppsAfrica Best News
and Entertainment App
Award .
The AppsAfrica awards
ceremony, held in Cape
Town, South Africa, last
week, recognises
innovation in the tech
ecosystem across Africa,
and is supported by
Mobile Monday South
Africa and Mobile
Ecosystem Forum, MEF.
The award adds to the
growing collection of
Bounce News’ laurels
and also underlines its
fast-rising profile as
Nigeria’s leading online
news destination.
Accepting the award on
behalf of Bounce News,
Modupe Ogunyemi,
thanked the organisers
for recognising Bounce
NAF, FUTA deepen partnership
THE Nigerian Air
Force, NAF, and
Federal University of
Technology, Akure,
FUTA, have put in place
a machinery to further
deepen their relationship
towards sustaining an
existing Memorandum of
Understanding, MoU,
and other allied
collaborations in the
areas of engineering,
meteorology and digital
sciences.
The MoU, part of which
include maintenance
and repairs of NAF
aircraft, signed about five
years ago, allowed
FUTA’s engineers to be
deployed to join a team
that repaired some NAF
aircraft in Port Harcourt.
Leading a team from
the Air Force High
Command to explore
Harmony Agriculture
International Fair, HAGIF,
at Banquet Hall, Ilorin, the
governor said the smallholder
farmers were also
provided access to 2,550
hectares of land across the
state.
He said Off-Takers
Demand Driving
Agriculture, ODDA,
scheme was a programme
formulated to drive
employment, boost food
production and diversify
the state’s economy.
Earlier, Chairman of
Harmony Holdings,
Professor Halidu
Abubakar, said with the
state government's
support, the company
gave out loans to over 100
cooperative societies and
1,000 farmers.
News Apps’ excellence in
delivering personalised
news to its users within
Nigeria and across the
world.
She pledged that the
company will maintain the
higher standards set in
producing original news
content, while tailoring the
app’s content to suit
individual user
preferences, pointing out
that Bounce News has
been nominated for the
World Architectural News
Award, WAN, the largest
international architecture
award programme.
Meanwhile, Bounce,
established eight months
ago, attributed its digital
innovation and superior
news gathering technique,
which leverages artificial
intelligence to provide
Nigerians with
personalised content.
ways of deepening the
collaboration, Chief of Air
Staff, Air Marshal Sadique
Abubakar, represented by
Chief of Standard and
Evaluation, NAF
headquarters, Air Vice
Marshall Kingsley Lar,
stated the readiness of
NAF to tap into FUTA’s
expertise in areas of the
university’s core
competence.
Responding, FUTA’s
Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Joseph
Fuwape, said the
institution has the
capacity to collaborate
with NAF and several
reputable organisations,
adding that the Force
can benefit from FUTA’s
technical know-how in
climate science, space
research and applications,
and allied fields.