SENATE APPROVES DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS. (PHOTO).

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 Senate Approves Death Penalty For Drug Traffickers The Senate has approved the death penalty for those convicted on the charge of drug trafficking in the country. The punishment prescribed in the extant NDLEA Act is a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The resolution of the Senate followed its consideration of a report of the Committees on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters and Drugs and Narcotics, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024. The Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights & Legal Matters presented the report during plenary, Sen.Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno North). The bill, which passed its third reading, aims to update the list of dangerous drugs, strengthen the operations of the NDLEA, review penalties, and empower the establishment of laboratories. Section 11 of the current Act prescribes that “any person who, without lawful authority; imports, manufactures, produces, processes, plants or grows the drugs popularly

AFRICAN NATIONS,DON'T MAKE ECONOMIC EXCUSES-OBAMA.

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Summit of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, July 28, 2014.     REUTERS/Larry Downing            U.S president Barack Obama on monday gave a preview of a summit he will hold with African leaders next week,saying African nations should look inward for solutions to economic woes and not make excuses based on a history of dependence and colonization.Speaking to 500 young African finishing a six week Washington leadership fellowship.Obama said it was important for developed countries to consider providing some targeted debt relief,it was time to end the notion that all of African nations problems resulted from onerous debt imposed by the west.''At some point,we have to stop looking some where else for solutions,and you have to start looking for solutions internally.As powerful as history is,and you need to know that history,at some point,you have to look to the future and say ok,we didn't get a good deal the,but let's make sure that we're not making excuses for not going forward''.

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