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Buhari To Move Nigeria Economy From Consumption To Production - FG Federal Government has promised to move the nation’s economy from consumption to production before the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari ends next year. It also said that efforts towards improving Nigeria’s global competitiveness status through the use of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) to attract foreign exchange earnings were beginning to yield results. Minister of State for Science, Technology, and Innovation, Chief Henry Ikoh, disclosed this while declaring open National Dialogue on the Establishment and Implementation of Technology and Innovation Centres for Global Competitiveness and Productivity, in Enugu, yesterday.

Pregnant woman, female undergraduate, 26 others arrested with tons of illicit drugs in NDLEA raids across FCT, 12 states . 9 Ghanaians get 72 years in jail for smuggling 10,843kgs cannabis into Nigeria A pregnant woman, a nursing mother and a 200-level university student were among 28 persons arrested with 9,437.6 kilograms of cannabis and 138,053 tablets of pharmaceutical opioids among others by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA during interdiction operations across 12 states: Yobe, Ondo, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Jigawa, Kogi, Adamawa, Kaduna, Kwara, Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. In the FCT, operatives on Saturday 15th October stormed a village known as Chukuku, which is about 10 kilometers from Gwagwalada where they raided a large cannabis warehouse. A total of 510 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 5, 640kgs were recovered from the store and a nursing mother in charge, Saadatu Abdullahi, 35, was arrested.  In Yobe, whil...