Nigeria ranks highest in drug use prevalence in the world

The national programme officer of the United Nations office on drugs and crime, Mrs Folusho Adelekan, says Nigeria has been ranked as the highest in drug use prevalence rate in the world.

She said the nation accounted for 14.3 per cent as against 5.3 per cent of the entire global community.

Mrs Adelekan stated this in Abuja at a sensitisation workshop on drug abuse and rape organised by Christabels initiatives and facilitated by the national assembly joint committee on drugs and narcotics.

She said available statistics showed that there were 14.4m drug users in Nigeria at 14.3 per cent prevalence rate.