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Nigerian man sentenced 10 years for cocaine trafficking
A Nigerian residing in Brazil, Ernest Nnajuiba Ukechukwu, has received a ten-year prison sentence from an Accra High Court on July 13, 2023, for...
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NACOC reveals 53% of males from 15 to 65 years abuse drugs
The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has hinted that 53 per cent of males between the ages of 15 to 65 are engaging in drug...
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NaCoC reaches out to stakeholders for ways to tackle drug trafficking
Kenneth Adu-Amanfoh, the Director-General of the Narcotics Control Commission (NaCoC), has called for a unified and collaborative approach to combat drug trafficking and abuse...
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NACOC seizes $127K cannabis at KIA
The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), has seized $127K cannabis at the Kotoka International Airport cargo terminal.The cannabis weighing about 12.67KG was intercepted on Wednesday,...
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Former Jamaican EC boss calls for legalisation of cannabis in Ghana
Former Jamaican electoral commissioner, Paul Christopher Burke has stated that legalising cannabis in Ghana will bring huge benefits to the country.According to him...
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NACOC burns cannabis worth GH₵50m
The highest amount of cannabis ever confiscated since 2021, weighing about 50 tons and having a market worth of GHC 50 million, was destroyed...
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Ghana police hiding suspected marijuana intercepted at Liero – NACOC alleges
The Narcotics Control Commission's Upper West regional command has accused the police of underreporting the amount of compressed substances believed to be marijuana that were seized by a combined police-immigration tax operation on December 1 in Liero, a neighborhood in the Sissala West area.As a result, the commission has asked the state attorney to assist in locating the packages of suspected marijuana.A swoop by the patrol team, which consisted of police and immigration officers acting on information, discovered that most of the rooms in the home of a guy (name withheld) in Liero were filled with sacks containing what was thought to be marijuana.In a statement, NACOC stated that 981 packets of the suspected chemical were held in immigration's hands, while several other parcels were turned over...
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NACOC officials seize US$1.4m worth of suspected narcotic drugs
At Accra's Central Post Office on Tuesday, the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) discovered suspected narcotics drugs worth US$1.4 million.NACOC representatives found five brown boxes...
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