President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has renewed the appointment of Brigadier-Normal Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd) because the Chairman of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) for an additional five-year time period.
Mr Marwa was first appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021, after serving because the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse from 2018 to December 2020.
The reappointment means the Adamawa-born former army officer will stay on the helm of the NDLEA till 2031.
Mr Marwa, a former army governor of Lagos and Borno States, is a graduate of the Nigerian Navy College and the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA.
After his commissioning as a second lieutenant in 1973, Marwa served as brigade main of the 23 Armoured Brigade, Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the Chief of Military Workers, Lieutenant-Normal Theophilus Danjuma, and tutorial registrar of the Nigerian Defence Academy. He additionally served as Deputy Defence Adviser within the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, DC, and later as Defence Adviser to the Nigerian Everlasting Mission to the United Nations.
He holds two postgraduate levels: a Grasp of Public and Worldwide Affairs from the College of Pittsburgh (1983–85) and a Grasp of Public Administration from Harvard College (1985–86).
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His tenure within the NDLEA has been exceptional for a lot of drug busts, together with the arrests of 73,000 drug mules and barons and seizures of over 15 million kilogrammes of assorted onerous medicine.
Below his management, the company has additionally launched nationwide campaigns to deal with drug abuse.
“Your reappointment is a vote of confidence in your onerous efforts to rid our nation of the menace of drug trafficking and drug abuse. I urge you to not relent in monitoring the retailers of onerous medicine, out to destroy our individuals, particularly the younger ones,” President Tinubu mentioned.
Bayo Onanuga
Particular Adviser to the President,
(Data and Technique)
November 14, 2025
