By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- In a major sting operation, NDLEA officers from the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI) intercepted 90 parcels of Loud, a potent cannabis strain weighing 48.6kg, smuggled from the United States and cleverly concealed in three cartons of kitchen sinks at a Lagos courier...
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By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a notorious drug kingpin, Sunday Ibigide, 36 in Asaba, Delta State. Ibigide was apprehended on August 10, 2025, while attempting to move 250 blocks of skunk weighing 138 kilograms using his distribution bus. A statement issued by...
Kano Strategic Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has detained 49 individuals for drug-related offenses involving various quantities of illegal substances across the state. In a statement issued on Wednesday in Kano, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Sadiq Muhammad-Maigatari, revealed that the arrests were made...
Edo Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has made significant strides in combating drug trafficking in the state. In July, the command arrested 46 suspects and seized a total of 39,983 kg of assorted illicit substances. State Commander Mitchell Ofoyeju disclosed that operations were driven by...
After months of fleeing abroad to evade arrest, the founder and General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Prophet Adefolusho Aanu Olasele (alias Abbas Ajakaiye) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for masterminding multiple shipments of illicit drugs into Nigeria. The...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- A businessman Ajah Johnson Uchenna and his wife Rosemary Uchenna were on Monday 4th August 2025 sentenced to a total of 22 and a half years imprisonment by Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court 8 in Lagos for dealing in illicit drugs. The...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted consignments of cocaine and tramadol 225mg concealed in 71 vehicle side mirrors being sent to Libreville, Gabon through the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos. The operatives arrested no...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives conducting intelligence-led stop and search operations in Gwarimpa, Jahi, and Galadimawa areas of the FCT has arrested three dispatch riders for distributing illicit substances around the city. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Jaji Military Cantonment in Kaduna State has strongly denied allegations of demolishing civilian properties within its jurisdiction, labeling such reports as misleading attempts to discredit the military. Addressing journalists during a tour of the areas in question, Acting Deputy Director of Army Public Relations...
Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Buba Marwa, has revealed that the agency seized 1.3 billion tramadol tablets and 4.4 million bottles of codeine between January 2024 and June 2025. Marwa shared these figures during a plenary session at a two-day Government-Citizens’ Engagement event in Kaduna...
Adeshina Fasasi, a witness for the defense, testified on Thursday before the Federal High Court in Abuja that an analysis of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari’s call records showed no communication with any phone number associated with a suspected cocaine dealer, referred to as Mike Coke. Fasasi,...
A National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officer was shot dead by suspected drug dealers during a raid on an apartment in Ondo town’s Ita’nla area on Tuesday. The officer, attached to the NDLEA’s Ondo Command, was part of a team that stormed the building to recover drugs stored...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- Operatives of a special operations unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a wanted 60-year-old drug kingpin, Okpara Paul Chigozie, ending seven years of evading the long arm of the law, even as he was caught attempting to ship large quantities...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday raided Sarah Sam Hotels located at 115 Ogudu road in Kosofe, Lagos where different party drugs are being distributed and sold. A statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said...
Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT transferred 45 bags of suspected Indian Hemp, weighing 1,575 kilograms, to the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday at Apapa, Lagos. Commodore Paul Nimmyel, represented by the base’s Executive Officer, Capt. Idongesit Udoessien, said the seizure occurred near Ilesha Beach as part...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis concealed in microwaves imported from Thailand and wraps of cocaine built into ladies’ lipsticks going to Guinea at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos....
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- No fewer than 28,054.053 kilograms of skunk, a local strain of cannabis, were destroyed on three farms measuring over 11 hectares at Ewere Uzebba forest in Owan West LGA of Edo on Tuesday 8th July, while 82kg of already processed cannabis was recovered from the...
Senate has called on the Federal Government to assist the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in paying a compensation of N200 million to the family of a two-year-old boy killed by a stray bullet fired by NDLEA operatives in Asaba, Delta State. The Senate’s resolution followed the presentation...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has categorically denied allegations that it has been used to peddle drugs since President Bola Tinubu took office. In a statement signed by Franklin Alao, NIPOST Director, Corporate Communications, the service described the allegations as baseless and without merit. Alao...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted cocaine consignments concealed in lipsticks and property title documents going to the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia respectively. This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi,...