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Video: How I got into drugs— Nigerian artist Timaya

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7 months ago

February 9, 2024

Nigerian music artist, Inetimi Alfred Timaya Odon, better known by his stage name Timaya, during a radio interview on Wednesday, said that he became a drug addict during the COVID-19 in 2020 through the influence of some younger friends.

“I am not a saint; I have done drugs. That’s how I lost a lot of weight.” Timaya said this while speaking about how he was introduced to3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA).

The substance, which is a synthetic drug, is a strong empathogen-entactogen with stimulant and mild psychedelic effects. It is generally known by the names ecstasy (tablet form) and molly or mandy (crystal form).

According to a CNN report, China is the source of nearly all the ingredients used in Molly and other synthetic narcotics. The medications are sold online by Chinese chemists, and middlemen countries grind them up with other ingredients before selling them as powder or in pill form.

Cases of drug abuse have continued to rise in Nigeria. A 2022 study by Statista revealed that there were a total of 9,831 drug cases in Nigeria in 2018, scattered all over the geopolitical zones, with the most cases reported in the north-western part with over 2,800 cases. The other zones averaged a total of over 1,100 cases in that year.

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Video: Nigeria’s Dangote boasts ‘environment is cleaner’ with his petrol

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7 days ago

September 3, 2024

Ifeoluwa Dada

In this video, Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group and owner of a 650,000 barrels per day capacity refinery, presented the first sample of locally-produced petrol to the public after over two decades since local refining of crude products by government-owned refineries last happened, leaving the country with no option than importation of refined crude.

He explained why the first product sample from his refinery was clearer than the ones already in use.

“We Nigerians must celebrate right now that the environment will be cleaner, also people having issues with their health, especially in industries people having issues with their vehicles will now have the real product”

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Video: WTO chief Okonjo-Iweala laments politicization of insecurity in Nigeria

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2 weeks ago

August 27, 2024

Ifeoluwa Dada

Former Nigerian minister of finance and coordinator of the economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, while addressing about 10,000 members of the Nigerian Bar Association on the theme, “Nigeria Needs A Social Contract— for better security, economic, social and political governance”, lamented how insecurity had become a political tool and subject of propaganda against the common good and national interest.

Okonjo-Iweala, who is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), cautioned that the practice had to stop.

Nigeria faces several security issues with grave impact on its economy. Bandit-led kidnappings and attacks on local communities, and the Boko Haram insurgency have been the tragic highlights of the damaging insecurity.

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