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The Abuja–Kaduna Highway or Abuja–Kaduna Expressway is a highway in Nigeria.It connects the national capital of Abuja with the city of Kaduna.Depending on the definition used, [a] it is between 155 kilometres (96 mi) [1] and 200 kilometres (120 mi) [2] in length.
To aid in collecting money during traffic jams, the area boys place nails in the road and dig up the streets. [9] Among the Area Boys are both sellers and users of illegal drugs. [10] A study states "most of them use drugs (cocaine, heroin, marijuana, etc.) either as occasional users or addicts, or as peddlers." Of 77 respondents to a survey ...
With the continued dangerous trend of road traffic accidents in Nigeria then, which placed it as one of the most road traffic accident (RTA) prone countries worldwide (the most in Africa) in 2013, [6] the Nigerian government saw the need to establish the present Federal Road Safety Corps in 1988 to address the carnage on the highways.
In addition to the added potency, the drug has a “low cost,” which leads drug dealers to mix fentanyl with drugs like “heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine, increasing the likelihood of a ...
UN World Drug Report 2016. In Peru, coca-bush cultivation jumped 44% between 2000 and 2011. While cultivation fell 31% between 2011 and 2014 (back to 2000 levels), it still accounts for 32% of ...
Oliver Stolpe, UNODC Country Representative to Nigeria, said that according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2021, 14.4 percent of Nigerians are presently engaged in drug abuse. [8] Also, Nigeria was one of the largest cannabis growers in Africa, with over 8% of the population using cannabis.
The Lagos - Abeokuta expressway is Nigeria busiest highway, linking metropolitan and greater Lagos, with other Nigerian states. The expressway is the busiest inter-state and intra-city route in Nigeria handling more than 250,000 PCUs daily and constitutes one of the largest road networks in Africa. [ 2 ]
Whereas before drug traffickers transported drugs through the West Africa, they now realized they could save money by selling their products within the region. As a result, countries central to West African drug routes—Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau—have all seen a rise in domestic drug consumption and abuse ...