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To combat counterfeit drugs, Governor Soludo unveils a plan to establish a centralized wholesale drug center in Anambra.

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As part of his efforts to standardize the drug market and eradicate fake and counterfeit drugs, Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo has announced plans to construct a coordinated wholesale drug center in Oba, Idemili South LGA. The relocated and standardized Ogbo ogwu market, Onitsha's arguably largest open drug market, will be housed in the new center. "As a government, we are already building a coordinated wholesale drug centre in Oba, Idemili South LGA, that will accommodate the new and standardised Ogbo ogwu market. This is our own contribution to ending the current chaotic market environment where fake and counterfeit drugs thrive. "Onitsha remains the largest trading hub in Africa, we will further expand this status to a more befitting height," he said. Onitsha's Ogbo ogwu and adjoining market were visited by Soludo, who learned that the nearby plumbing materials market had been shut down because of shops selling illegal drugs. The governor ordered an ex...
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Nigeria Police Working To Secure Release Of 20 Kidnapped Medical Students

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Nigerian police and security organizations are attempting to get the arrival of 20 clinical understudies who were abducted in the eastern piece of the country, authorities say.

The clinical understudies were en route to a yearly show when they were snatched in Benue State on Thursday night, police and college sources said on Saturday.

The Organization of Catholic Clinical and Dental Understudies said in an explanation that the understudies were making a trip to the show in the city of Enugu when they were taken.

Fortune Olaye, the secretary-general of the Nigerian Clinical Understudies' Affiliation, said 20 clinical understudies from two colleges, as well as one specialist going with them, had been seized.

It added that there had been a payment interest as a trade-off for their delivery.

In a Nigerian Clinical Affiliation (NMA) letter to the monitor general of police, posted on the virtual entertainment stage X, NMA secretary-general Benjamin Egbo expressed 12 of the snatched understudies were from the College of Jos and eight were from the College of Maiduguri.

One of the understudies figured out how to share their area, showing that they were in the Oglewu Ehaje region in Benue Express, the letter said.

“The Nigerian Medical Association is deeply concerned for the safety and well-being of these future medical professionals,” it added, saying that swift and decisive action to secure their return was “crucial”.


The abducting was additionally affirmed by Catherine Anene, advertising official for police in Benue State.

Hyacinth Alia, legislative leader of Benue State, said in a proclamation that he had "guided security organizations in the state to strengthen endeavors and guarantee the protected delivery" of the understudies.

The public police said in an explanation that it had requested the sending of "cutting edge helicopters and robots, as well as the utilization of particular strategic vehicles to work with the hunt and secure the protected return of the people in question".

The seized understudies were purportedly going from the northern piece of the country in a guard of two transports when the episode happened, Nigeria's This Day paper detailed.

The understudies were stole out and about close to the town of Otukpo, under 150km (93 miles) from Enugu, which frequently witnesses assaults and kidnappings.

Instances of grabbing have expanded fundamentally in Nigeria because of a serious financial emergency which is pushing more individuals towards wrongdoing. Be that as it may, official figures are temperamental as many cases are not revealed.

In 2022, a regulation was passed prohibiting installments to criminals - however numerous families say they believe they must choose the option to hack up the payoffs requested.

Nigerian consultancy firm SBM Insight said it had recorded 4,777 cases between May 2023, when Bola Tinubu expected charge as president, and January 2024.

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