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Patriotsleague:
Apart from endsars, Nnamdi Kanu clearly ordered ipob terrorists to break jails and free inmates charged with murder and armed robbery, which they did. Nnamdi Kanu released mayhem on his people, and he has used that to plant fear in the cowards, even their elders are scared. It looks hopeless for them.

True, actually. Too many were justifying prison breaks informed by the sentiment that majority of prisoners in Nigeria are miscarriage of justice victims or corruption in the justice system victims. However these silly dismissals over the dangers implicit in prison breaks were not limited to any ethnic groups. People also celebrated the Benin prison breaks during or after the End Sars protests debacle.

inferiority complex that causes psychologically damaged, formerly colonized people to inferiorize and disdain their own country and its culture and to uncritically valorize other countries and their cultures

Ah, is that what it is, the motivator of the Jappanese people of Nigeria?

That Nigeria vloger that traveled to Saudi Arabia and seemed to value the very things and even worse in Saudi Area that she disdained in Nigeria. She even praised the results of thire restrictive policies and dismissed Nigeria's ultra liberalisms as Jagajaga.....

The benefits of the revolutionary fight in the thought processes of majority of youths that take up arms to join "The Cause" is the prospect of rape and pillage and not about attaining the newer better state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38wrIDWsvIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TMUMHHWFB8

The irony of supposed oppression of "The People" as the supposed catalyst for all of the world's revolution is that if the majority of the world's people had thire choice manifest in the world, there would be no wars today and none would have occurred since after the birth of Christ.

Majority, if not all of the world's anarchy, is caused by the wishes and actions of the few over the wishes of the majority.

If a few didn't run around threatening people with guns or death to sit at home, the majority wouldn't sit at home. If the majority rose up and attacked gunmen and bandits at the train station or in the train, trains in Nigeria would eventually experience safety from bandits.

If majority had their way, Russia and Ukraine wouldn't be warring.

Indian Councillors Caught Attempting to Smuggle Cocaine Into Sri Lanka

30 November, 2022

DMK councilor Sarbraz Nawaz attempts to smuggle cocaine worth Rs 360 crore to Sri Lanka, arrested
The confiscated substances are worth over Rs 360 crore in the drug racket that is run internationally


On Tuesday, the Tamil Nadu coastal Police arrested a DMK councillor and a former councillor for attempting to smuggle cocaine worth Rs 360 crores from the Ramanathapuram district. The accused intended to transport the cocaine worth crores of rupees to Sri Lanka.

According to the reports, the arrested accused persons have been identified as Jainuddin (45), a former DMK councillor of Keezhakarai municipality, and Sarbraz Nawaz (42), currently the DMK councillor of the 19th ward of Rameshwaram. The incident came to light after the coast guard police officials conducted an intensive surveillance activity on the Mandapam-Vedalai road in Ramanathapuram district.


During the search on 26 November, cops stopped a racing luxury vehicle and discovered 30 containers holding 20 litres of raw cocaine. Following an inquiry, it was found that Sadiq Ali, 36, of Rameshwaram, owned the boat that was to be used to transfer the cocaine to Sri Lanka. The Police then confiscated the drugs and arrested the brothers in the car, Jainuddin and Sarbraz Nawaz.

The confiscated substances are worth over Rs 360 crores as per international value. Reports mention that authorities in the Ramanathapuram district had never before discovered such high-value narcotics intended for smuggling to Sri Lanka.

The DMK brothers, who have been arrested for attempting to smuggle drugs to Sri Lanka, own and operate a cargo logistics company. Central and state intelligence services investigated them to determine their connections with mafia organizations or worldwide drug trafficking networks.

Meanwhile, the fishermen community has expressed shock over the incident of smuggling drugs to Sri Lanka in a country boat by anyone disguised as a fisherman. The fishermen stated that such incidents affect the livelihood of the community and the Sri Lankan Navy becomes concerned and used this as an excuse to detain and arrest them.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam also took cognizance of the incident and slammed the state government. The opposition parties said that the incident was one more instance showcasing DMK’s poor administration.



https://www.opindia.com/2022/11/tamil-nadu-dmk-councilor-sarbraz-nawaz-brother-jainuddin-smuggle-cocaine-worth-rs-360-crore-to-sri-lanka-arrested/

India’s Drug Trafficking Problem
In this episode we investigate India’s drug trafficking problem. South Asia’s traditional opium and heroin networks are now complemented by the rise in abuse of synthetic precursor chemicals. Large volumes of each type of narcotics are smuggled from and through India to the rest of the world, including the United States. To help listeners understand this multifaceted transnational criminal problem and its impact on India and the United States we turned to the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Country Attaché in India Derek Odney and illicit drug control expert Dr. David Murray of the Hudson Institute. We also hear from Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal, a Delhi-based adjunct fellow with CSIS, and the CSIS Wadhwani Chair’s Natalie Tecimer to learn more about the situation on the ground and what U.S. and Indian officials are doing to counter the threat. Hosted by Will Colson. Audio edited by Franny Hocking. Written and produced by Jeffrey Bean.

https://www.csis.org/podcasts/cogitasia-podcast/india%E2%80%99s-drug-trafficking-problem

WannaHowzit:
Title should rather be:
SA USED AS MAIN TRANSIT TO INDIA.

This is common knowledge but when your brain has been decimated by extreme hunger and acidic fumes emanating from agbero poop found in literally every gutter in your country (in truckloads ) you'll post comments like the one GeneralPula has put up above.

GeneralPula how do you cope with such extreme retardation

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Reports shed light on how cartels rely on supplies from across Asia


India is coming under the spotlight as a supplier of chemicals for illicit synthetic drugs like fentanyl and methamphetamine, although China is still believed to be the top source.

A number of recent official and nongovernmental reports have highlighted India's role in the global narcotics trade. "Multiton consignments of precursor materials from India have been shipped to Africa and Mexico," reads the U.S. State Department's annual report on international narcotics control strategy, released in March. "This trend is expected to continue and expand."

While data on the total volume of Indian chemical supplies to illicit drug producers is not publicly available, exports of ephedrine, used to make methamphetamine, increased to more than 77 tons in 2020, up from almost 58 tons the year before, the report shows.

The latest annual report by the International Narcotics Control Board, an independent body that monitors compliance with United Nations drug conventions, notes, "The large chemical and pharmaceutical industries in India are vulnerable to the diversion of products to illicit markets by criminal networks." It also warns that "the risk of diversion of illicitly manufactured fentanyl, methamphetamine, opioids and other substances and their trafficking within and out of India is expected to increase."

Likewise, a bipartisan U.S. commission on combating synthetic opioid trafficking recently found that India "is not far behind its eastern neighbor as a major producer of drugs and controlled chemicals that make their way into illegal drug supplies."

India's large chemical and pharmaceutical industry has an even weaker regulatory and legislative regime than China's giant sector, according to a recent study released in March by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. The study examines the evolution of China's anti-drug policies and offers the first extensive analysis of its law enforcement cooperation with the U.S. and other countries, while also including new research about India's role in the trade.

"In both countries you have very politically powerful, quite unruly chemical and pharmaceutical industries that hate oversight," said Vanda Felbab-Brown, author of the report and director of the initiative on nonstate armed actors at Brookings.

China was for years the leading source of illegal fentanyl, a highly potent synthetic opioid that has fueled the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, with overdose fatalities reaching a record of nearly 106,000 in the year ending October 2021, according to the latest data.

In 2019, China bowed to intense U.S. pressure to curb synthetic opioid trafficking by scheduling fentanyl and its analogues -- or classifying them based on their medical value and potential for abuse. This helped to greatly reduce the volume of finished fentanyl flowing directly from China to North America. But Chinese traffickers rapidly adapted by selling unscheduled chemicals to drug producers in Mexico, who then used those ingredients to manufacture fentanyl and smuggle it into the U.S.

Mexican cartels have also allegedly "developed a network of suppliers of precursor or finished synthetic drugs in India," according to the Brookings report, while Chinese traffickers have worked with Indians to circumvent restrictions in China, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

India, like China, has long been a source of chemical precursors for the production of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine in the Golden Triangle, where Laos, Myanmar and Thailand intersect. Fentanyl is not scheduled in India, and restrictions were relaxed further when it was classified as an essential medical drug in 2014. However, India has controlled some fentanyl and methamphetamine precursors.

The Chinese, Indian and U.S. governments did not respond to Nikkei Asia's requests for comment.

Policymakers are concerned that if China were to further crack down on its domestic suppliers, "India could become the next source of precursor chemicals," said Bryce Pardo, associate director of the drug policy research center at the Rand Corporation, who was involved in the U.S. opioid commission.

However, India has its own growing problem of domestic opioid misuse, which could force the government to take firmer action against the synthetic drug trade, Vanda Felbab-Brown said.

The United Nations in March scheduled three more precursors used in fentanyl production at the 2022 session of its Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which makes international drug control policy.

"Traffickers will find it harder, riskier and more costly to source the chemicals for their illicit business," Martin Raithelhuber, a synthetic drugs expert at the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, told Nikkei Asia.

Still, it is unlikely that scheduling these and other precursors will eliminate the synthetic drugs trade because illicit producers can bypass regulations by tweaking the molecular structure of existing chemicals or invent new, uncontrolled precursors.

Regulating dual-use chemicals could also undermine legitimate businesses. "Many of these chemicals have such wide use in legal industries and legal pharmaceutical companies that they will simply never be scheduled," said Felbab-Brown.

Mexican cartels have enlisted skilled chemists to devise novel formulas for synthetic drugs, her report notes. U.S. agencies are concerned that the Mexicans are vertically integrating drug production and doing more of the synthesis "in house," Pardo said.

Drug producers in the Golden Triangle also employ Chinese and Taiwanese chemists, according to the Brookings report, and appear to be using nonscheduled chemicals to make methamphetamine.

Myanmar is also a "likely candidate for eventual fentanyl production," the report says, because of its "synthetic drug production infrastructure," drug trafficking networks, and other factors.

There is not yet evidence of widespread fentanyl use in Asia, but consumption could be higher than is known, Felbab-Brown said, and she believes it is "only a matter of time" before the drug comes to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

According to the U.S. State Department report, "Pakistani agencies reported a slight increase in synthetic fentanyl seizures" last year. Nikkei asked the State Department and Pakistani government for further information about these seizures, but did not receive a response.

While China recently voted with the U.S. to schedule the fentanyl precursors, its counternarcotics cooperation with Washington has been in decline, especially since the U.S. blamed China for the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Brookings report. India, too, has at times been unwilling to cooperate with foreign countries on drugs, although its collaborative efforts with the U.S. have improved in recent years, Felbab-Brown said.

According to sources, top NCB officials suspect that illegal laboratories are in operation again and grew their business and base during the pandemic.

According to sources, top NCB officials suspect that illegal laboratories are in operation again and grew their business and base during the pandemic.

Noticing a big spike in smuggling of drugs from African countries following Covid-19 outbreak, Indian agencies suspect that the period of the pandemic was used by kingpins to revive illegal laboratories to manufacture expensive narcotics like heroin and cocaine. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has reached out to representatives of African nations in India, expecting action to be pursued in their home countries.

Data compiled by the NCB which triggered the alarm says that in 2017, 2018 and 2019, almost no heroin seizures were recorded from South Africa, but in 2020, when the pandemic hit all nations, close to 10kg heroin trafficked from South Africa was seized in India. This number saw a bigger jump in 2021, crossing 51kg.

Sources say top NCB officials suspect that illegal laboratories are in operation again and grew their business and base during the pandemic.


“There has been a massive jump, which in percentage is more than 50,000%, in heroin smuggling to India from South Africa. We have escalated the issue to concerned foreign authorities and told them about this new trend. It is suspected that illegal drug manufacturing laboratories have been growing again in various countries, which is also reflected in the latest World Drug Report," a senior NCB official said.


The NCB has done an analysis based on the World Drug Report, which says that “a number of other African countries may have also been involved in the manufacture of the drugs including Mozambique, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin and other countries in West and Central Africa were mentioned as countries of origin of methamphetamine in the region."


“Ghana was one of the most-commonly reported departure countries for methamphetamine shipments seized in Africa. While no laboratories were reported dismantled in Ghana or in the other African countries identified as departure countries, it is possible that manufacturing is expanding outside of Nigeria and South Africa," it added.

Explaining the modus operandi, the NCB official quoted above said, “Their couriers, who are foreigners, get Rs 15,000-20,000 per visit with full accommodation and flight charges. They carry small but expensive drugs procured from smugglers who get them from these labs. They stay in India for a few days and leave after handing over to their Indian supplier. They carry drugs worth crores of rupees in one transfer. This trend has seen a whopping rise during pandemic, hinting at massive production in various countries."


NCB officials say the laboratories are producing drugs in different forms, making them easy to supply.


According to a report published in VICE this month, gangs in Durban are operating out of high-tech underground drug labs where they are producing more pills in lesser time.

“Drug gangs in Durban, a city on the country’s east coast, have moved to selling cheap heroin packed into capsules using underground drug labs where automated pharmaceutical capping machines can spit out up to 25,000 pills an hour. The pharmaceutical-style capsules, known on the street as “caps" are sold for around 35p each, cheaper than a loaf of bread in Durban," the report said.

According to the latest World Drug Report, which was also a talking point during the meeting of NCB officials, drug markets have swiftly resumed operations after the initial disruption at the onset of the pandemic.

“A burst that has triggered or accelerated certain pre-existing trafficking dynamics across the global drug market. Among these are increasingly larger shipments of illicit drugs, a rise in the frequency of overland and water-way routes used for trafficking, greater use of private planes for the purpose of drug trafficking, and an upsurge in the use of contactless methods to deliver drugs to end-consumers," the report said.

“The resilience of drug markets during the pandemic has demonstrated once again traffickers’ ability to adapt quickly to changed environments and circumstances," it added.

On drugs supply and demand trends, the report said that mobility restrictions due to the pandemic have led to expansion of illegal drug manufacturing infrastructure in various countries.

“Possibly as a response to Covid-19-related mobility restrictions, organised crime groups appear to have expanded the area of methamphetamine manufacture to include Cambodia, where at least five clandestine synthetic drug laboratories were seized in 2020, whereas no synthetic drug manufacturing sites had been seized between 2015 and 2018," the World Drug Report said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdxdPDHQfV8

tamdun:
What they accuse China of....

Not to mention what Nigerians condemn Nigeria for, sighting USA, Canada, UK etc as examples of Freedom....

Great news, well done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-GO8QMM-sI

Oct 16, 2022

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested three South Africans from a hotel in South Mumbai and recovered 2kg of cocaine worth Rs10 crore.

Sources said the NCB Delhi unit arrested the three in a followup operation after they arrested a woman, Deepali Odiwanor, in Tilak nagar in Delhi with 5kg of cocaine worth Rs25 crore on Wednesday.
During the course of interrogation, Deepali told officials that she had procured the contraband from the South Africans and also handed over their mobile numbers.

NCB officials raided the hotel and arrested Dawit Berhe and Desalegn Abebe and their interrogation led to the arrest of two more, Yasak Gebreegizaheber and Kelemuwa Belay, from whom they recovered another 2kg of cocaine worth Rs10 crore.

During the course of investigations it transpired that these South Africans arrived from Ethiopia and had sold it to Deepali, who in turn was to hand over the contraband to peddlers in Delhi Officials said the accused were part of a huge drug trafficking racket which had international ramifications. The accused have been booked under NDPS Act and they will be produced before the Patiala court

In February, a South African was held at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport for smuggling 8kg of heroin worth Rs56 crore. The drugs were concealed inside three small bags, an official said.

The Drug Lords of India



Drugs are extremely harmful to all and yet incredibly popular and dangerously profitable. Countries in like Mexico and Colombia are well-known for their narcos cartels and drug lords.

But what about India?In 2015, Forbes magazine listed him having a net worth of $6.7 million.

A country which has a growing problem with drugs especially in regions like Punjab surely has criminal elements behind the supply in the form of their own drug lords.

Small time ‘businessmen’ who deal and peddle the drugs are harmless compared to drug lords who fear no one and nothing.

Making and selling drugs is never the role of a drug lord because seldom do they get their hands dirty.


They are masterminds of the operation and are the kingpins of accruing vast sums of money from the drugs sold.

Their level of scheming, money laundering and extreme gun violence is just the tip of the iceberg.

Some have connections with those in banking, big businesses and even film celebrities.

While some drug lords want the world to fear them and know them by name, other drug lords prefer to stay underground and let their many associates do the dirty work.

Most drug lords live a glorified and lavish life; we are talking mansions, luxurious cars, exquisite possessions to gold-plated bathtubs. And security only the elite can buy.



Tiger Memon

Born Ibrahim Abdul Razak Memon, operating as a kingpin under the alias, Tiger Memon is one of Indias most dangerous drug lords in India,

He is a criminal mastermind and terrorist.

Memon is one of many responsible for the attacks which took place in Mumbai in 1993. The number of death is said to be 257 with many more injured.

Memon survived by fleeing the country just before the attacks while his gullible teen ‘henchmen’ did the deed by plotting bombs and executing his plan.

For a while, many thought Tiger Memon was the main culprit behind the attacks but then news surfaced from across India that the attacks were plotted by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

This news was given to local media by Usman Majeed, a former politician who has said the ISI will never allow Memon to surrender but they will kill him.

As for Tiger Memon, he remains uncaptured and reports say, law enforcement continues to consider Memon a threat.

Dawood Ibrahim


Dawood Ibrahim carries a comic like backstory – from good guy to villain.

Born with a good upbringing, son of a lead constable to one of India’s most wanted.

It took more than planning and scheming to become one of the most wanted in India. Dawood has quite the CV if you dare to review his career as a big-time gangster.

Starting as a delinquent, upgrading to running a crime syndicate and then terrorist; all this has given this bad wolf the lavish life we have all dreamed of.

In 2015, Forbes magazine listed him having a net worth of $6.7 million.

Dawood has many ventures in the UAE, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Cyprus and Australia and also is known to have major property portfolio in the UK which includes hotels, mansions, tower blocks and houses in suburbs in the south-east of England.

So, what did Dawood actually do? What crimes did he commit?

First, the Metropolitan robbery, a case which his father worked on and captured him. Dawood and a group of young boys were said to carry out the biggest robbery of the decade at that time.

Then the terror attacks in Mumbai where it is reported that Tiger Memon was his right-hand man.

Recent reports believe Dawood Ibrahim has resurfaced and was involved in the murder of Sri Devi. This was after a retired police officer Ved Bhushan stated the nature of Sri Devi’s murder points to Dawood Ibrahim.

He is also said to be the inspiration behind an Indian underworld character called “Dilly Mahmood” in the eight-part BBC television series, McMafia.

However, as of yet Dawood continues to live a relaxed, crime-filled life and remains uncaptured by law enforcement. He is said to be hiding in Pakistan.

Shashikala Ramesh Patankar

Meet Mumbai’s female drug dealer and who was the Queen of the drug underworld, Shashikala Ramesh Patankar.

Reported to have the alias ‘Baby’ or ‘Baby Patankar’ she was a woman not to be double-crossed.

Shahishikala was one of the main persons behind the distribution of a famous narcotic which was popular in the 1980s called ‘meow meow‘.

Baby Patanka’s case revealed that she engaged in business with people within law enforcement, had a large amount of wealth from selling ‘meow meow’ and owned a number of properties.

While not as wealthy as some of the other biggest and worst drug lords, Baby Patanka had money to her name.

Arresting her was not easy, NDTV reported that it took a number of 10 investigation teams and the time period of just over a month to capture her.

Although lack of evidence found by police enabled Shashikala to file for discharge, the substance seized by police turned out to test negative for any narcotics.

Nevertheless, a large sum of the so-called ‘meow meow’ drug seized was found in possession of a police constable ‘Kalokhe’. The very same name said to help Shahishikala escape.

In fact, this name ‘Kalokhe’ appears throughout reports on Baby Patanka’s case and he may have been one of her closest allies/ business partners.

Before ‘meow meow’ aka mephedrone, Patanka was selling narcotics like brown sugar and hashish in her early years and there she also came in contact with people in the same business as her.

What many don’t know is that Shahishikala proved she was dangerous before she became the famous meow meow peddler. The Indian Express reported that her nephew accused her of murder.

In 1993, this notorious drug lord went to the dark side and killed her own sister because she rejected her career choice. While reports state Shahishikala chose burning as her method of killing.

It is evident that among the drug lords in India, Baby Patanka is as dangerous and notorious as her male counterparts; her history as a drug lord proves her to be a criminal mastermind and a successful businesswoman.

Vicky Goswami


Vicky Goswami like Dawood Ibrahim was a son of a police officer, well educated and later turned rogue.

He first started as a bootlegger and selling drugs in Ahmedabad.

Goswami then moved to Africa setting up alliances with major drug lords there including Irvin Khoza, nicknamed the ‘Iron Duke’ in South Africa.

Vicky supplied drugs on a global scale, he was responsible for the supply of ‘Mandrax tablets’ from Mumbai to a Capetown.

Sources show that Mandrax was initially sold in pharmacies as a sedative but it caused users to become addicted and therefore was banned.

Like Vicky, many saw an opportunity and distributed the drug internationally; the drug was used with other narcotics such as cocaine.

The distribution of Mandrax had been on police radar for a long time in India but Vicky Goswami was good at staying hidden.

Until he began dating Bollywood actress Mamta Kulkarni; that was when the whole of India became interested in Goswami – the mysterious lover.

But how big and infamous of a drug lord is Vicky Goswami?

To begin with, Vicky had reportedly done business with people of the same status as Dawood Ibrahim and then expanded his network internationally, making a name for himself.

He owned a private jet and a chain of hotels and like many drug lords had an influence in Bollywood.

He threw a lavish party in Dubai in 1997 for “anybody who was somebody in Bollywood”. It was reported the stars returned to India with lavish gifts including mobile phones and luxury cars.

This led to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (EDA) and the Thane police both investigating him.

Police commissioner Param Bar Singh was heading the investigation on Goswami and made an ephedrine drug bust in April 2016. Singh said:

“Vicky has a large network of a supply chain to various countries. He was to use this ephedrine to cook meth (methamphetamine), also known as crystal, and supply it to various countries including the US.”

In the end, Vicky Goswami’s reign as a drug lord came to an unexpected end and he was seized by the US Drug Enforcement Agency.

Chhota Rajan

In 2015, The Indian Express valued Chhota Rajan’s net worth at Rs 4,000-5,000 crore which puts him among some of India’s richest drug lords.

Rajan, like the others, uses Mumbai as one of his main bases for his business operations as well as many international countries where he has investments in luxury markets.

Of course Chhota Rajan, the name was just an alias and he was actually born as Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje.

Rajan was prosecuted in 2015 for 70 counts of murder, for illegally importing and exporting drugs followed by extortion.

The Times of India reported that Rajan escaped prison and headed towards a country in the Gulf.

In the end, Rajan’s own actions lead law enforcement to arrest him as he had given away his identity. He was deported to India after being captured by the Indonesian police.

He continues to remain in prison and a follow-up report stated the Dawood Ibrahim has made another attempt on Rajan’s life.

Not a glamorous life as expected but these are among some of India’s top drug lords and gangsters and the life they lead is nothing like what may be portrayed in music videos and TV shows.

Once you choose a life of crime, there is no turning back and there is definitely no shortage of enemies who probably want to do more than just talk.

The darker side of India, especially Mumbai, is not immune to the attraction of a life of crime, especially when it comes to having its own drug lords.

India has widespread drug problem, report says
Sanjay Kumar

Additional article information

Millions of Indians are dependent on alcohol, cannabis, and opiates, and drug misuse is a pervasive phenomenon in Indian society, says a new report, published jointly by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and India's Ministry of Social Justice.

The report was completed more than 18 months ago but was only recently published because its findings were not acceptable to the government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was in power until May this year.

“They [the previous government] did not want to admit the magnitude of the problem indicated by the national household survey and that this too was happening within India—something they considered antithetical to Indian culture and embarrassing,” said a senior government official.

In the national household survey more than 40 000 men and boys (aged 12 to 60 years) were interviewed, while subsidiary studies looked at drug misuse among women and prison inmates and in rural populations and border areas.

Alcohol, cannabis, opium, and heroin are the major drugs misused in India, says the report. Buprenorphine, propoxyphene, and heroin are the most commonly injected drugs.

Applying estimates of prevalence to population figures, the survey estimated that in India, whose population is just over a billion, 62.5 million people use alcohol, 8.75 million use cannabis, two million use opiates, and 0.6 million use sedatives or hypnotics. Seventeen per cent to 26% of these people can be classified as dependent users who need urgent treatment, says the report. About 25% of users of opiates and cannabis are likely to seek treatment, while about one in six people who drink alcohol are likely to do so.

“That drug abuse is an exclusively urban phenomenon is a myth,” said Gary Lewis, the South Asia regional representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Injecting drugs and high risk behaviours are seen in urban and rural areas, he added.

Injecting drugs is fairly widespread throughout the country and not restricted to the northeastern states—the common perception. “It is interesting to note that the abuse of heroin and IDUs [injecting drug users] were also reported from rural India,” says the report. Sharing of needles was common (needles were shared by three injecting drug users, on average), as was unsafe sex.

The potential number of people seeking treatment—about 0.5 million opiate users, 2.3 million cannabis users, and 10.5 million alcohol users—is a serious challenge for India at present, said Mr Lewis. Low enrolment in treatment programmes and long duration of drug use before people seek treatment remain key areas of concern, he added.

Currently India does not have a system of national or local monitoring for drug misuse, said Dr Rajat Ray, head of the Centre for Behavioural Sciences at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and the main author of the report. “Mere building of treatment centres will not be enough, and millions of drug users in the community will have to be motivated, informed, and encouraged to come forward to seek treatment,” he said.

The type of Opposition Politics practiced in Nigeria is by far worst for Nigeria than any president. It seeks to brainwash Nigerians into becomingly one massive block of protest movement. Don't fix the car until government provides you better job so you can buy equipment to fix cars. Don't go to hospital until government provides good hospitals. Don't teach until government provides you with top pay. Don't go to school until government provides better schools. Don't go to work until government provides public transport, fixes roads and raises pay above inflation. Dont buy made in Nigeria until government ensure that it is up to or better than standards abroad. Don't buy property until government provides mortgage schemes. Don't Bleep your wife until government provide condoms so you wouldn't over reproduce. Don't be happy because the government is bad being happy while the government is bad is stupid. Don't show ostentatious weddings on YouTube because the government is bad, doing so is a lie because the government is bad. Dont look on Lagos with hope or point to it as example to copy by other state governments or Africa because it would creat an illusion that Nigeria is hopeful when the truth is the government is bad. Praising the mechanic is not good because Nigeriains must be made to look bad in other to show that the government is not good. Bad people bad government. Don't be seen being positive, doing positive things, or being creative or progressive or the international community will raise eyebrows and the bad government will be let off the hook. Don't do anything but cuss and oppose the government of the day by cussing your nation, your fellow Nigerians, and hating everything. Only pic up arms and revolt in order to bring about better government that will provide you everything abroad nations enjoy.

I would take the criticism of what he did more seriously If it wasn't for the fact that I've been on Niaraland long enough to know that had he been a Kenyan, South African, Rwandan or other, no one would call him lazy brain or backhand criticize him by advising him about his lower back. Instead everyone would praise him and compare Nigeriains unfavourably to him.

Na lie?


Truth is the guy is heroic and an example to Nigerians that want to do nothing but complain all day about JAPPA. Long term or short term, the guy adds more value to Nigeria and the Nigerians around him than all you complainers, terrorist, Jappanese and those that practice the type of opposition politics that is destroying the image of Nigeria under the pretext of opposing the party in power at the time.

Nigerians study books in higher schools like it is popularly believed that Koranic students study Koran or Jewish students the Torah, which is from cover to cover. I was shocked when I left UK and attended collage in Nigeria. I had to know or memories my chemistry, physics, literature books entirely. I hold a healthy respect for educated Nigerians.

In spite of the concerted efforts by some Africa and foreign nations to portray Nigerians in a way that make Nigeriains pariahs, the world will gradually see and recognise Nigerians for the positive force for good that they are.


Some Nigeriains abroad - and I mean the genuine Nigeriains abroad - need to consider Nigerians in Nigeria befor making comments whose long term effects affect the economy of Nigeria by negatively impacting investments. In addition, causes foreign nations to make things difficult for Nigeriains that may wish to travel abroad for the verous reasons peculiar to each individual.

I asked ChatGtp whether Simon Ekpa is a Dingbat and If Nigeria's president is the real Buhari or the imposter Jubril El Sudani Nee Khartoumi but the server broke down

May the innocents RIP

By the way, if the creators of ChatGtp are so smart, why didn't they take into consideration that with the number of humanity online, servers wouldn't cope?

How Can Nigeria Become industrialized ?
There are several steps that Nigeria can take to become industrialized:

Develop infrastructure: Investing in transportation, energy, and communication infrastructure can help to attract foreign investment and make it easier for businesses to operate.

Improve education and skills training: A skilled workforce is essential for industrialization. Improving education and providing training opportunities can help to prepare the workforce for industrial jobs.

Encourage foreign investment: The government can work to create a more business-friendly environment and attract foreign investment by improving the ease of doing business and reducing corruption.

Diversify the economy: Nigeria's economy is heavily dependent on oil exports, so diversifying the economy to include other sectors such as manufacturing, services, and technology can help to reduce its dependence on oil and create a more stable economic base.

Improve the ease of doing business: By implementing and improve business regulations, taxation, and legal systems it will attract more investment, thus making it easier for local and foreign investors to start and maintain their businesses.

Improve political stability: Political stability is essential for economic growth and industrial development. The government can work to improve political stability by tackling corruption and other forms of political mismanagement.

While not an exhaustive list, addressing these issues could help Nigeria to industrialize and develop a more sustainable and diversified economy.

If a democracy is run by superstitious people, it could have a number of negative effects. One potential issue is that decisions may be made based on superstition rather than reason and evidence. This could lead to poor policy choices and a lack of progress in addressing important issues facing the society. Additionally, superstition can often be used to justify discrimination and prejudice against certain groups of people, which would be in violation of the principles of democracy.

Another problem is that, superstitions can be used as tools of manipulation by certain leaders, also can be used to justify certain actions which can be against the overall well-being of the society.

In general, it would be difficult for a democracy to function effectively if its leaders and citizens are heavily influenced by superstition, rather than rational thinking and a commitment to evidence-based decision making.

Civilians alone or all related i.e Soldiers, police and civilians?

If all then things aren't as bad as feared....

Tobijays:
Ghana is equally towing same lane as their leaders have started signing contracts already; Chinese owned company, STARTIME is gradually gaining grounds over our major institutions,

Are you Ghanaian?

“The bullets could not penetrate the protesters’ bodies, so the policemen fired tear-gas canisters

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See belief system. When a people are this primitive, they have no business agitating for political power of any sort.

Nigerian girls used to be respectable. Unlike the rest of Africa, you would not find Nigerian girls running around with groups of aimless boys or men on the streets like feral beasts. I used to boast about how feminine and well trained Nigeria girls were irrespective of class or privilege. The girl in the picture reminds me of those Sierra Leonean and Liberian girls that used to run around wildly with boys during those nations respective civil wars, smoking joints, rubbing and killing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjee1LdmHbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED_yPDdqG5Y

One problem with Nigeria is the outdated Dictionary. For instance, the word Fortification isn't in the Nigeria dictionary. The word Restive also isn't in the Nigeria dictionary. A relationship can be drawn between Restive and Fortifications.