Tag: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

The detainees are categorised into three groups: prosecution, rehabilitation, and reintegration.

She noted that NAFDAC’s mandate includes regulating food, drugs, cosmetics, chemicals, packaged water, medical devices, and herbal medicines, ensuring all ...

Oby Ezekwesili This year’s co-winner (alongside Mr Drago Kos, a former chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery from ...

Nigeria budgets billions to maintain its prisons annually, but makes no specific provision for sanitary pads for women prisoners.

The boys, whose average age is 10, were intercepted while being transported to Niger Republic.

In a statement signed by HEDA Chairman Olanrewaju Suraju, the organisation emphasised that the integrity of the judiciary is at ...

Our present jurisprudence gives much protection to suspects who use their ill-gotten billions of naira to obfuscate their trials.

Ajunwa-Oparah expressed concern about the growing threat of dangerous drugs, particularly among young people.

It has been observed in recent engagements by Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), financed by GIABA-ECOWAS, that poor collaboration ...

A new police system that tinkers with the present structure is destined to fail.

MLK Day is officially the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, an American Baptist minister, who was one of the ...

NAPTIP DG, Mrs. Waziri-Azi said to tackle the scourge of human trafficking in the country, it had become imperative for ...

According to a 2021 World Drug Report, Nigeria could have 20 million drug users by 2030.

The UN report added that approximately one in eight people who inject drugs lives with HIV while half live with ...

Mr Guterres added that human traffickers are also leveraging the negative impacts of COVID-19 to exploit their victims.

About 4.1 million people urgently need food assistance across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe in northeast Nigeria,’’ Mr Haq said.

The UNODC said it will support Nigeria in implementing its laws on drug control, transnational organised crime, corruption and terrorism.

Nigeria dropped for the fifth consecutive time in the Transparency International's latest corruption perception index (CPI) released in January 2022.

The past two decades have witnessed a substantial increase in criminal activities in sporting circles

Africa remains the region with the highest rate of killings of women and girls by an intimate partner or a ...

Nigeria is currently at its lowest ebb as a nation with a near complete economic collapse, total breakdown of law ...

The outlined illegal financial activities in the country have attained a pandemic level. They enable public sector corruption, which occurs ...

The government is training sport coaches to effectively engage out-of-school children and other vulnerable young persons on how to become ...

The US report said there is evidence that the security agencies intimidated voters, election observers, and INEC officials, particularly in ...

the report follows the trail and impacts of trafficking Latin American cocaine from West Africa into Europe.