Five Nigerians have been arrested by the Western Regional Police In Ghana for allegedly trading in contraband and over the counter medicines. The Pharmacy Council, the body mandated to regulate the sale of medicines in the country had observed with grave concern the increase in itinerant drug peddling business across the country and vowed to clamp down on their operations. They were arrested after a swoop by the Western Regional Office of the Council with the support of the Police. The five were arrested in the Prestea Huni-Valley District while one Ghanaian woman who escaped had her wares running into thousands of Ghana cedis confiscated. Empire FM reported that most of the drugs being sold by the Nigeriens are meant for the enlargement of male organ and female buttock. ASP Simon Deta, the Huni-Valley District Crime Officer in an interview with Empire FM stated that the five arrested will be investigated and prosecuted. He added that other foreign nationals engaged in dru...
By Chinedu Asadu The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is marking its second year in power. An administration that was dubbed a “messianic” one considering that its emergence saw an end to the 16 uninterrupted years the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had governed Nigeria. While some believe that the president deserves a pat on the back for some feats his government has achieved, others believe there is still a wide gap between the current reality the country is facing and the plethora of promises the administration presented Nigerians at its inception. In the build-up to the 2015 presidential election, the promises of Buhari – and the APC’s by extension – were sewn around one word – change. He had even reaffirmed the promise of change when, in his acceptance speech, he declared: “Change has come and a new day and a new Nigeria is upon us”. This notwithstanding, a report by SBM Intelligence, an organisation devoted to the collection and analysis of information, shows that th...