Friday, November 14, 2025 - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has renewed the appointment of Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd) as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for another five-year term.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the
President on Media, Bayo Onanuga, the reappointment means the Adamawa-born
former military officer will remain at the helm of the NDLEA until 2031.
“Your reappointment is a vote of confidence in your onerous
efforts to rid our country of the menace of drug trafficking and drug abuse. I
urge you not to relent in tracking the merchants of hard drugs who are out to
destroy our people, especially the young ones,” President Tinubu said.
Marwa was first appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in
January 2021, following his tenure as Chairman of the Presidential Advisory
Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse from 2018 to December 2020.
A former military governor of Lagos and Borno States, Marwa
is an alumnus of the Nigerian Military School and the Nigerian Defence Academy
(NDA).
Commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1973, he served in
various capacities, including Brigade Major of the 23 Armoured Brigade,
Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to then Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Theophilus
Danjuma, and Registrar of the Nigerian Defence Academy.
Marwa also held diplomatic defence roles, serving as Deputy
Defence Adviser at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and later as
Defence Adviser to Nigeria’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
He holds two postgraduate degrees: a Master of Public and International Affairs
from the University of Pittsburgh (1983–85) and a Master of Public
Administration from Harvard University (1985–86)
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