Tag: UNODC
Boko Haram recruits more than 8,000 children to fight in Nigeria’s North-East
The Boko Haram insurgents have recruited no fewer than 8,000 children in fighting the war against Nigeria since the start of the Boko Haram crisis in the North-East in 2009. The revelation was made on Wednesday in Abuja, when the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) jointly with the National Agency for the […]
14.3m Nigerians into drug abuse, says UN
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said that no fewer than 14.3 million people are into drug abuse in Nigeria. This was contained in a report released by the UN agency during a sensitisation workshop on Drug abuse and immorality, religious and social approaches to curbing the menace held in Jigawa […]
