{"id":61146,"date":"2025-02-13T11:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T11:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61146"},"modified":"2025-02-13T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T11:46:58","slug":"14-million-nigerians-addicted-to-hard-drugs-ndlea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/13\/14-million-nigerians-addicted-to-hard-drugs-ndlea\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Million Nigerians Addicted to Hard Drugs &#8211; NDLEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed that at least 14 million Nigerians are battling drug addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Commander of NDLEA\u2019s Ondo State Command, Yetunde Joyifous, disclosed this at a drug abuse awareness program organized by Oijefon Youth in Ile Oluji\/Oke-Igbo, Ondo State. She emphasized that most abused substances alter users&#8217; mental states negatively.<\/p>\n<p>Joyifous called for stronger community engagement to combat drug abuse, stressing that secondary school students are among the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Oijefon Youth Council President, Adedokun Adeyonu, highlighted peer pressure, media influence, and curiosity as key drivers of drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>He urged society to support youth in making healthier choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0 The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed that at least 14 million Nigerians are battling drug addiction. Deputy Commander of NDLEA\u2019s Ondo State Command, Yetunde Joyifous, disclosed this at a drug abuse awareness program organized by Oijefon Youth in Ile Oluji\/Oke-Igbo, Ondo State. She emphasized that most abused substances alter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61148,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61146\/revisions\/61148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}