The Chairman, NDLEA, retired, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa says the existence of illicit drugs laboratories in Nigeria underscores the growing threat of illicit drugs to public health and national security. Marwa said this on Monday in Lagos at the Global Rapid Interdiction of Dangerous Substances (GRIDS) twinning programme, organized...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A consignment of 3.20kg skunk concealed in native black soap heading to the United Kingdom has been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the NAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Wednesday, 7th June....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered a secret laboratory producing deadly illicit substance, Methamphetamine, in a residential community located in Ikeja Lagos state where already packaged sachets of the drug and various precursor chemicals used in the production were...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has debunked online reports allegeding that there is a lopsided promotion in the agency. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Wednesday that elevation of officers and men remains an ongoing exercise based on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have stormed lwe forest in lwe community, Owan West local government area of Edo state, where they located a large warehouse of skunk, used to store 231 jumbo bags of the psychotropic substance weighing 3,003 kilograms...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) says its operatives have intercepted a large consignment of methamphetamine concealed in powdered custard containers in Lagos. The NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said the consignment was ...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has commenced nationwide raid of drug joints ahead of the May 29 inauguration of new government in the country. According to Femi Babafemi, the Director, Media and Advocacy of the agency, 534 drug suspects have been arrested during the operation, code-named Operation...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), FCT Command, says it has arrested 34 suspects when it conducted a sweep operation on illicit drug dens in the territory. The FCT Commander of the agency, Kabir Tsakuwa, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested no fewer than 85 drugs suspects at a nightclub in Kano on Monday. Commander of the NDLEA in the state, Mr Abubakar Idris-Ahmad, said in a statement on Tuesday, that the arrests...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Tuesday, gave reasons it resorted to the trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendants behind closed doors. Counsel for the NDLEA, Mr Sunday Joseph, told newsmen who were barred from covering the sitting shortly after the case was...
Journalists covering the ongoing trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and others were, on Tuesday, restrained from coming into Court 10 of the Federal High Court, Abuja, venue of the proceeding. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order following an application to the effect by Mr Sunday Joseph, counsel for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA and the Nigeria Customs Service have assured of more collaboration with the Economic and Financial; Crimes Commission, EFCC, in fighting economic crimes and corruption. The heads of the two agencies in Borno State gave the assurance when...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have raided two notorious drug joints, Zaro bunk in Bama road, Sabongari and the Sani Abacha indoor stadium, both in Kano metropolis where a total of 160 suspects were arrested with different quantities of...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Two businessmen arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for cocaine ingestion have both excreted 193 pellets of the illicit drug after three days in observatory custody. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi...
The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya says the Nigerian Army will hold periodic sensitization programmes against drugs abuse and other related issues in all its formations nationwide. Yahaya gave the assurance when he declared open a drug and narcotics control awareness conference, on Thursday in...
Police in Osun have arrested a 24-year-old woman who allegedly impersonated as a police officer to rob Point of Sale (POS) operators in Osogbo. Police spokesperson in the state, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated on Wednesday in Osogbo that the suspect was arrested on Tuesday after she was rescued from an irate...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has intercepted 21,800 tablets of tramadol in Adamawa and Edo. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson of the agency, Mr Femi Babafemi and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday. Babafemi said that a suspect, Sahabi...
Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun, on Saturday, directed security agencies to carry out systematic raids in identified places where vendors of hard and other illicit drugs operate in Sagamu and its environs. Abiodun gave the directive in Abeokuta while receiving, on courtesy call, the new Commandant of Nigeria Security...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it would an online test for qualified superintendent cadre applicants (Professional and General Duties) who successfully submitted their 2023 applications. The Director of Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday raided a factory in Mubi, Adamawa supplying deadly Akuskura psychoactive substance to Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. Mr. Babafemi...