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

LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT,UNVEILS PLANS TODAY,TO BUILD MODERN HOUSES ON MAKOKO LAGOON.

A house on Makoko waters               Today thursday,the Lagos state Government has unveiled plans to build modern houses on Makoko waterfront to curb the decay in the ghetto.Commissioner foe Physical Planning and Urban Development,Toyin Ayinde disclosed this at a news conference in Ikeja,Lagos.The housing scheme will be a replica of Lake Union Seattle,in the United States of America where houses are built on water in an organised manner.Toyin Ayinde said that the daily migration of people to the city of Lagos continues to have serious impact on the population and that all aspects of the economy,including the issue of accomodation are affected.''As a result of this,a lot of unplanned settlements and encroachments on both land and water by these immigrants have become a burden.The house built on the Lagos lagoon overtime in the Makoko area continued unabated and soon became worrisome due to the speedy and fast encroachment on this water way and further extension towards the PHCN high tension cable o the lagoon.Consequently,the ministry found it expedient to undertake a study of this development and tagg it HOUSE ON WATER''.Ayinde said the benefits of the project was to improve and enhance the living condition of the residents,to control development on the water ways,to increase the potential of the community economically,to protect the highly valued waterfront against pollution and wide spread contamination,to enhance water transportation and promote tourism.

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