UNODC
2 days ago
Sir: About four weeks ago, the news was all over the media that members of the Governors Spouses Forum, during a two-day Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Care (DPTC) training held on February 13, 2024...
3 days ago
Prison and Penal Reform Portfolio of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, (UNODC), has called for greater implementation of the non-custodial measures
6 Mar
The Federal Government has decried the decline of wildlife population in the country, saying that the threats posed by the development call for urgent collective action to ensure a brighter future for both wildlife and communities.
6 Mar
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, (UNODC), has decried illegal trade in wildlife and forest product noting low enlightenment, weak legislation and implementation among other gaps as bane of effective prosecutions of offenders.
6 Feb
Nigeria has launched the School anti-Trafficking Education and Advocacy Project (STEAP), following a 2021 report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which found that children made up 75 per cent of trafficking victims detected in West Africa.
2 Feb
The Federal Government has called on relevant stakeholders to make concerted efforts towards ending drug abuse among youth in the country so as to prepare them for employability, entrepreneurship as well as future leaders.
14 Nov
Nigeria and the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, (Eurojust), have signed a working arrangement to enable structured and closer cooperation in the fight against organised crime groups, (OCGs).
9 Nov
The Behavioural Change Cohort of MacArthur Foundation has said that it will hold this year’s edition of its behavioural change conference and exhibition, with the theme: “Fostering a Corruption-Free Nigeria,” on November 15, 2023, at D-Serene Exclusive Hotel in Abuja.
17 Oct
The Statistician General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Prince Adeyemi Adeniran, has said that corruption has remained a formidable challenge in Nigeria that requires all hands to be on deck to stamp it out of the country.
27 Sep
President Bola Tinubu has implored Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Africa (HONLEA) to collectively renew strategies towards fight against substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking on the continent.
26 Sep
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has implored heads of national drug law enforcement agencies in Africa under the aegis of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Africa, (HONLEA), to collectively renew strategies towards the fight against substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking on the continent.
4 Aug 2023
Nigeria and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, (UNODC), as well as the United States among others, have agreed to join forces to overcome the crime of human trafficking and the attendant consequences.