National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has alerted that female sanitary pads not properly disposed in Ogun state are being abused as drug by some youths in the state.
According to the agency, some youths are now picking used sanitary pads not properly disposed, from dust bins and neighborhood across the state.
The state NDLEA deputy commandant, Mrs Eucheria Ekwu made this known to newsmen on the sideline of a youth orientation programme for secondary schools students in Abeokuta.
She said the youths involved in the act, after collecting the sanitary pads not properly disposed, inhale in order for them to be high as if they are on drugs.
The NDLEA commandant, who was worried over the spread of the abuse, advised girls and women in the state to always burn their sanitary pad after usage.
She also expressed concern over youth as young as nine year old using psychotropic drugs such as loud, sk and Colorado.

Some suspected cultists have allegedly murdered a former councillor in Abeokuta North Local Government area of Ogun State, Mutiu Akinbami.

It was gathered that the councillor was gruesomely murdered at Olomore area of Abeokuta on Friday’s evening by a rival cult group suspected to be Aiye Confraternity.

Acctording to eyewitnesses, he was killed in the presence of his son while on transit.

It was learnt that his body has been evacuated by the police operatives in the state.

Details later…………

Ogun state government has started implementing a revised salary structure for medical doctors in public hospitals.
The new consolidated medical salary structure was the major demand of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in calling out doctors on strike last August.
The NMA had demanded the new salary structure to align with the salary structure of medical doctors in federal hospitals, to attract more doctors to serve in the state public hospitals.
The state NMA chairman Doctor Ogunjimi Lukman addressing newsmen on Saturday in Abeokuta, announced the take off of the implementation of the new salary structure for doctors in the state public hospitals.
He thanked Governor Dapo Abiodun for the implementation of the new salary structure saying, it was a major consideration for the welfare of doctors in the state hospitals.
Doctors in the state public hospitals had embarked on strike last August 5, but suspended it on August 29 to give the state government time for further negotiation on the demand.