Ahmadu Giade, a retired deputy commissioner of police, was appointed chairman of the Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in November 2005.
In 1993, he held a similar position at the Katsina State Police Command before his transfer to the Special Fraud Unit, Force Criminal Investigation Department Lagos.
Giade was a member, Federal Government Task Force on the Reorganization of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in 1994.
[3] He was appointed Special Assistant to the President on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances from December, 2015 until April 2019 where he completed his tenure and retired from public service.
Speaking in October 2008 before a United Nations committee discussing crime prevention, criminal justice and international drug control, Giade said that one of the most significant problems faced in Nigeria was the misuse of cannabis.
[5] In November 2015, Giade formally handed over the Agency to its Director General, Roli Bode George, at a ceremony in the Ikoyi Headquarters in Lagos.