Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have foiled bizarre plots by two drug traffickers to move consignments of cocaine and opioids hidden in their stomach and fake baby bump through the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) Kano and the Seme land border in Lagos to...
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Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Trans Fortress Global Resources, a notable real estate development firm, Mr. Kolapo Oladapo Raji, has been arrested by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives. Raji has been on NDLEA watchlist since 2025 following credible intelligence, according to a statement by the Agency’s spokesman, Mr....
A China-based Nigerian businessman, Ibeanu Vincent Chukwudulue and two Angolan citizens: Mbandu Martins Makiadi and Ngoma Wilson Fernando have excreted a total of 236 wraps of cocaine following their arrest by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja and Mallam...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have raided a notorious drug enclave known as Ama Hausa in Bonny Island, Rivers state where six suspects were arrested and a significant cache of illicit substances, including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, skunk, and tramadol was recovered. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi...
Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has explained why former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore cannot lawfully rely on his past statements to justify calling President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a drug baron, insisting that those remarks were long withdrawn after being found to be false. Omokri made this known in a...
A 30-year-old Brazilian lady, Ms. Ingrid Rosa Benevides has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja for bringing into Nigeria a total of 30.09 kilograms of white heroin concealed in factory sealed coffee packs worth over N3...
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrester two suspects: Aminu Ali Baba, 20, and Abdulrasheed Abubakar, 28, on Friday 23rd January in connection with the seizure of two bags containing 140 packets of explosives heading to Kano and Kaduna. The bags were intercepted in a commercial bus along...
Troops of the Joint Task Force (North East) Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) under Operation DESERT SANITY V, have recorded another significant success in efforts to degrade terrorist logistics and criminal support networks in the North East. A statement issued by the Media Information Officer, Headquarters Joint Task Force (North...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have successfully apprehended a long-wanted drug kingpin, Lekan Jimoh, popularly known as “Kanmo-kanmo”, ending a 12-year manhunt following his involvement in the brutal killing of three NDLEA officers. Kanmo-Kanmo, who is notorious for drug trafficking, evading arrest and mobilizing armed...
President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that United States forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following what he described as a “large-scale strike” against the South American nation. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump announced that the operation resulted in Maduro and his wife being...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reaffirmed its zero-tolerance stance against narcotics trafficking as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordered the continued detention of a foreign vessel, MV San Antonio, and its 21 crew members over their alleged involvement in a major cocaine smuggling operation uncovered at...
At least 3 people were killed on Saturday after a violent confrontation between security operatives and suspected drug peddlers in the Koraman Nayalle area of Sabuwar Unguwa Quarters, Katsina metropolis. The clash reportedly began when security personnel moved to arrest a suspected drug dealer identified as Uzairu, popularly known...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has declared Kaduna State the national benchmark for drug prevention and treatment, applauding the State’s sweeping reforms and innovative approach to addressing substance abuse and mental health. In a letter signed by the UNODC Country Representative, Mr. Cheikh Toure, and addressed...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered and dismantled a social media network used to distribute illicit substances packaged as imported Christmas cookies and snacks with two masterminds arrested and taken into custody after a raid on their hideout in Lekki area of Lagos. The...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) continued their offensive action against drug syndicates in a nationwide crackdown with the dismantling of an opioids cartel in an intelligence-led operation. During the operation, a drug baron, Onyekachi Pius Nwanagu and five members of his gang were arrested with...
Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari on Wednesday firmly insisted that he fully disclosed all his assets — and those of his wife — as required by law, telling a Federal High Court in Abuja that allegations of concealment were fabricated. Kyari, who is on trial for...
Barely six months after 10 Thai sailors and their ship were convicted and fined $4.3million for bringing 32.9kg cocaine into Nigeria, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have again intercepted another commodity laden vessel- MV Nord Bosporus marked 9760110 from the port of Santos in Brazil...
Troops of 232 Battalion (Tactical), operating under Sector 4, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), have recorded a major breakthrough with the arrest of a key drug supplier to Boko Haram terrorists, Zubairu Muhammed (45 years), in the early hours of 13 November 2025 at Uba town, Adamawa State. A statement...
A wanted drug lord 40-year-old Yussuf Abayomi Azeez has been arrested by operatives of a special operations unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos while on his way to Saudi Arabia for Umrah, a holy pilgrimage, after months...
By OLA MODUPE , Lagos- Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered a clandestine laboratory where Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis is being produced in a residential building located at Ajao estate, Isolo Lagos with large quantities of freshly cooked Colos and various precursor...