The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Retired Brigadier General Buba Marwa, has urged parents to acquire drug test kits for home use, to ensure early detection of drug use by children and manage the situation.

Marwa said drug abuse has become a societal menace that endangers the health, well-being, and future of young people, noting that parents, guardians, and teachers have a sacred responsibility to their children along the right path, helping them to nurture their talents, pursue their dreams, and avoid the destructive grip of drugs.

Marwa encouraged families to take proactive steps, including acquiring drug test kits for home use. It is better to detect drug use early, when intervention is possible, than to wait until it develops into full-blown addiction.

Vice President Kashim Shettima has arrived in New York to attend the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Shettima, who is representing President Bola Tinubu, will deliver Nigeria’s national statement during the high-level general debates, announce the country’s new Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement, and participate in a series of side events, bilateral meetings, and roundtables.

On arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Vice President was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, Minister of Defence, Badaru Abubakar, and Nigeria’s Chargé d’Affaires at the Permanent Mission to the UN, Ambassador Samson Itegboje.

Nepal’s interim government, led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, has set up a panel to investigate the violence during anti-corruption protests this month that killed seventy-four people and forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to quit, according to a Nepal minister.

Rameshwore Khanal, who Karki put in charge of the finance ministry, said the three-member panel headed by retired judge Gauri Bahadur Karki had been given three months to complete the probe.

In a social media post, former Prime Minister Oli also demanded an investigation into the violence and said his government did not order police to fire at the protesters.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that thirty-one out of thirty-eight confirmed Ebola cases have resulted in deaths in southern Congo, where authorities are battling a new outbreak of the deadly virus.

The latest figures show the casualty rate has nearly doubled since last week and that the disease is spreading rapidly, as more than nine hundred contacts have been identified so far.

An official at WHO Africa’s program, Doctor Patrick Otim, said that more than five hundred health care workers and contacts have received their vaccination, offering them crucial protection.

The immediate past Rivers State Administrator, Retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, and the Rivers State House of Assembly may be gearing up for a showdown following the latter’s decision to probe the state’s expenditure over the last few months under the former, according to reports.

The Rivers State House of Assembly, presided over by the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, during its first plenary after the end of emergency rule,  said it would investigate the state expenditure during the six months of emergency rule.

Meanwhile, opposition parties and civil society organisations are also calling for an investigation into Iba’s tenure, particularly his management of the state’s resources during his six-month stay in Brick House.