{"id":78708,"date":"2025-11-14T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78708"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:05:17","slug":"tinubu-reappoints-buba-marwa-as-ndlea-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/14\/tinubu-reappoints-buba-marwa-as-ndlea-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Reappoints Buba Marwa as NDLEA Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has approved the reappointment of Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), as Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for another five-year term, extending his tenure to 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Marwa, first appointed in January 2021 by former President Muhammadu Buhari, is credited with major reforms and an intensified nationwide drug enforcement campaign.<\/p>\n<p>His reappointment was announced Friday by the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.<\/p>\n<p>A former military governor of Lagos and Borno States, Marwa also chaired the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He holds postgraduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership, the NDLEA has recorded numerous high-profile drug seizures, arrested over 73,000 suspects, and expanded drug abuse prevention campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu described the renewal of Marwa\u2019s tenure as a vote of confidence in his efforts to combat drug trafficking and safeguard Nigerian youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith President Bola Tinubu has approved the reappointment of Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), as Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for another five-year term, extending his tenure to 2031. Marwa, first appointed in January 2021 by former President Muhammadu Buhari, is credited with major reforms and an intensified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78708","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78710,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78708\/revisions\/78710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}