By Margaret John The President of the African Council on Narcotics (ACON), Mr. Rekpene Bassey has called for the creation of a special department separate from the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency that will focus on drugs reduction while the NDLEA focuses on enforcement. Mr. Rekpene who was speaking on “The Dialogue With Agba Jalingo”
Youths in Cross River State are increasingly becoming addicted to narcotics, a veritable malady which once indulged in, gets into the bones and cannot be shaken off easily with all efforts. The result most often is that not only the young addict, but his family is doomed. Various factors are at work for this
By Vitalis Ugoh A total of 186 drug suspects were arrested by the Cross River command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in 2015, the State Commander, Mrs. Anthonia Edeh, has said. Edeh told reporters in an interview in her office in Calabar a total of 368,908 kilograms of various categories of hard