By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have intercepted a consignment of illicit drug consignment concealed in the engine compartment of an interstate commercial bus just as two grandfathers were taken into custody over drug trafficking. No fewer than 5.2kg of...
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The Narcotic Commander, NDLEA, Mr Paul Ahom, and the Customs Controller of the Western Marine Command, Odaudu Salefu, during the handover of cannabis in Lagos on Monday. The Western Marine Command of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has handed over 1.7 million wraps of hemp it seized to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a 40-year-old businessman, Ejike Chibuke Solomon with 1.45 kilograms of cocaine concealed in his luggage while attempting to board an Ethiopia Airlines flight number 950 to Vietnam via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted over 3.1 million pills of opioids in Kano, Kogi, Abia, Lagos, Ogun and Borno respectively. The NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement i on Sunday in Abuja, said the operatives...
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Katsina State Command, has arrested a 20-year-old man who allegedly concealed illicit drugs inside a tube of a dilapidated bicycle. The spokesman for the command, Mr Bashir Adamu, disclosed this to newsmen in Katsina on Thursday. He said that the suspect...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has successfully dismantled and arrested members of an organized criminal organization which specializes in trafficking heroin across Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Europe and America in a 12-day well-coordinated operation leading to the seizure of the single largest...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have begun to unmask members of an organized criminal network behind the recent importation of two containers laden with illicit drugs as well as assorted arms and ammunition from Durban, South Africa to the Tincan...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a large consignment of Loud, a synthetic strong strain of cannabis, concealed in giant loudspeakers tucked in a consolidated cargo imported from New York, United States of America. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A joint raid operation between the NDLEA and men of the State Homeland Security at 23 Arochukwu street, Umuahia around 11pm on Wednesday 14th February led to the arrest of a female lawyer, Adaobi Nweke, 36; her boyfriend, Emeka Nkemefola, 36; her mother,...
The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), retired Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa has directed NDLEA commanders nationwide to smoke out drug barons still in hiding in their areas of responsibility. Marwa, who gave the directive at a meeting with NDLEA commanders in charge of Zones, States and...
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said a total of 15 drug kingpins, out of the 3,412 drug offenders successfully prosecuted and convicted in 2023, collectively bagged 168 years imprisonment. NDLEA Chairman, Retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while addressing commanders and officers...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – An ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye has been declared wanted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). She was declared wanted after she escaped from her Lekki, Lagos residence when NDLEA operatives raided her...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Brazil returnee, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos for ingesting 60 big wraps of cocaine. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Lagos airport on Tuesday 23rd January recovered a total of twelve (12) cartons of tramadol 225mg containing five hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred (599,900) pills weighing 385.40kg from an overstayed cargo at...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tincan Island Port Command, has intercepted 56.39kg of cocaine and 955kg of Colorado Indica (marijuana) smuggled from South Africa and Canada with street value of N4.3 billion. The Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, said this in a media conference on Thursday in...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested one Okosun Paul Punitt, the consignee of a consignment of tramadol concealed in a bottle of dietary supplements, which a staff of Pathfinder International Ltd, Ajuzieogu Mac-Elvis Ugochukwu attempted sending through an intending passenger...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Operatives of different special units of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted large consignments of Cocaine and Colorado, a strong strain of cannabis, concealed in containerized household items and vehicles imported from Durban, South Africa and Canada at the Tincan Seaport...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted no fewer than five million six hundred and fifty three thousand (5, 653,000) pills of tramadol 250mg and exol-5 from three suspects in Kano State. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto/Zamfara States Customs Area Comptroller, Musa Omale, on Wednesday handed over 1,198 cartons of pharmaceutical products containing 3027 unregistered drugs of various categories to the National Agency for Food and Drug Control (NAFDAC). Addressing newsmen before presenting the consignments to...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arraigned an Assistant General Manager of Skyway Handling Company (SAHCO), Olajide Kafidipe, and seven other employees of the company before a Federal High Court, Lagos for alleged drug trafficking. The NDLEA docked Kafidipe and others before Justice Deinde Dipeolu...