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

THE NIGERIAN IMMIGRATION SERVICE,RAISED ALARM OVER THE INFLUX OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INTO RIVERS STATE

                                    The Comtroller General of Immigration Service Martin Kure Abeshi disclosed this at the 2015 stakeholders conference organised by the Rivers State Command on National Development and Global Security Challenges.The Controller General Immigration who was represented by the Acting Controller General Zone E.M.O Shuaibu,said the security challenges around the border areas and the North East are responsible for the movement of people seeking for peaceful environment to dwell.He called for the collaboration of other security outfits in the state to ensure that the migrants in the state do not pose any security threat.The State Controller of Immigrstion Service,A.M.Haliru said the State Command has embarked on stiffer penalty and repatriation of expaatriates without relevant Visa and permit to work in Rivers State.

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