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Professor Nasiru Hassan Wagini: The Nigerian Professor Who Sells Vegetables

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In a country where many graduates struggle with unemployment and societal pressure to secure white-collar jobs, Professor Nasiru Hassan Wagini stands out as a powerful example of humility, resilience, and enterprise. A lecturer at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU), Katsina, Professor Wagini is not only a respected academic in the field of Plant Physiology but also a regular vegetable seller at Batsari market in Katsina State. Born into a farming family, Wagini never lost his connection to agriculture. Despite rising through the academic ranks, he chose not to abandon his farming roots. Every week, he sets up a stand to sell vegetables and soup ingredients—known locally as kayan miya. This choice is not born of necessity alone but also of purpose. For him, it is a message to Nigerian youth: dignity lies in labour, and success can be found outside of office walls. Professor Wagini has become a local icon, showing that no work is beneath anyone, regardless of their education or positi...
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Over 31 Million Pills, Bottles Of Illicit Drug Worth N17.9Billion Seized At Lagos, Port Harcourt Ports

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The seizures were made following knowledge handled by the Organization on the development of the shipments from their port of beginning in India, prompting an interest for a 100% joint assessment of the watch-recorded compartments with the Nigerian Traditions Administration and other sister security organizations.

Agents of the Public Medication Policing (NDLEA) have blocked a sum of 31,124, 600 pills of tramadol 225mg and jugs of codeine-based syrup worth over N17.9 billion in road esteem at the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Waterways state and Tincan seaport in Lagos.

The seizures were made following knowledge handled by the Organization on the development of the shipments from their port of beginning in India, prompting an interest for a 100% joint assessment of the watch-recorded compartments with the Nigerian Traditions Administration and other sister security organizations.

A breakdown of the seizures shows that 350,000 jugs of codeine-based syrup were recuperated from two compartments at Tincan port in Lagos on Thursday and Friday, August 29 and 30, 2024.

As indicated by NDLEA, every one of the two compartments had 175,000 containers of the narcotic.

Meanwhile, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA Director of Media & Advocacy, in a statement on Sunday, said, “At the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, NDLEA operatives equally intercepted a total of 447 cartons of tramadol 225mg containing Twenty-Nine Million Eight Hundred and Forty Thousand (29, 840,000) pills of the opioid as well as 380,000 bottles of codeine syrup from three containers on Thursday 29th August. 

“The tramadol shipments came under different brand names such as Royal Tapetadol, Carisoprodol 225mg and Royal Tramadol Hydrochloride 225mg. 

“The following day, Friday 30th August, another set of three containers watch-listed by NDLEA were subjected to joint examination.  At the end of the exercise, a total of 3,030 cartons of codeine syrup containing 554,600 bottles of the opioid were recovered from them.

“This brings the total bottles of codeine seized at Onne, Rivers and Tincan in Lagos to 1,284,600 bottles worth N8,992,200,000.00 in street value while the combined seizure of tramadol stood at 29, 840,000 pills valued at N8,940,000,000.00.

“In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers state on Tuesday 27th August arrested a suspect, Eze Emekan Don, while attempting to board a Cronos airline flight to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea with 1,490 pills of tramadol concealed and packaged as cosmetics of different brands inside his luggage.”

“His attempt to compromise the officers to evade arrest was rebuffed,” it added. 

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