The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, ordered the suspended DCP Abba Kyari, and his co-defendants to enter their defence in the charge preferred against them by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Justice Emeka Nwite, in separate rulings on their no-case submission applications, held that a...
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By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja– The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, has intercepted a large consignment of tramadol valued at over ₦8.6 billion at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja as part of its significant anti-smuggling effort. The seizure, made on Saturday, 5 April 2025, was...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT has arrested no fewer than 27 suspected drug peddlers during a coordinated raid in Gidan Drama, Malu Road, Apapa, Lagos State. The Nigerian Navy Ship’s spokesman, Lt. Hussaini Ibrahim, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja– Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted cocaine hidden inside the walls of several suitcases. NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a post on Sunday, attaching the videos of the seized contraband on X. He decried...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said no fewer than one million people in Oyo State are involved in illicit drug consumption. The NDLEA State Commander, Olayinka Joe-Fadile, disclosed this on Wednesday during a campaign rally against drug abuse in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- Desperate bids by some drug trafficking organisations (DTO) to move illicit consignments such as Cocaine, Tramadol, Loud, Molly and others concealed in prayer beads, packs of board games, female cloths to the United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Poland, and United Arab Emirates through...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Barely three weeks after launching a manhunt for him, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested an automobile spare parts dealer Levi Chidiebele Ubodoeze over a recent attempt to export two kilograms of cocaine concealed in vehicle propellers to Angola....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Four drug kingpins: Ogbuji Christian Ifeanyi; Iloduba Augustine Chinonye; Shuaibu Nuhu Isa (a.k.a Don) and Zidon Zurga have been convicted and sentenced to a total of 95 years in prison by the Federal High Court in Lagos and Yola, Adamawa state over trafficking of cocaine...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday auctioned properties and assets forfeited by drug cartels, valued at millions of naira. Speaking during the bidding process in Abuja, NDLEA Chairman, retired Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, expressed the agency’s satisfaction with the process, emphasising that the proceeds would serve...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a wanted 59-year-old alleged drug baron, in his hideout in Ojo area of Lagos for over N1.4billion worth of seized illicit drugs. The NDLEA Chairman, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa said this during a press briefing on Monday in Abuja. Marwa...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 42-year old Angolan businessman Mbala Dajou Abuba at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano for attempting to traffic a large consignment of cocaine, which he ingested, to Istanbul Turkey. Abuba who...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Wednesday, publicly destroyed 25 tonnes of seized hard drugs in Kogi Stste. The NDLEA Chairman, Retired Brig.- Gen. Mohammed Marwa, who made the disclosure during the exercise held near Confluence Beach Hotel, Ganaja Village in Lokoja, described it as “very satisfactory.”...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja– Attempt by a 24-year-old Thai lady, Ms. Pattaphi Wimonnat, to smuggle 43 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 46.60 kilograms into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos has been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have busted a trans-border drug trafficking syndicate, arresting four members in intelligence-led operations during which multi-million-naira worth of tramadol pills concealed in the bumper and false bottom of sienna buses heading to border towns were...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Attempts by two drug kingpins to smuggle into Nigeria consignments of heroin through the Port Harcourt International Airport and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, have been foiled by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). One of the kingpins who uses...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – In a near death experience, a 59-year old businessman Chijioke Nnanna Igbokwe has undergone a surgery, exploratory laparotomy, to let out 57 out of 81 pellets of cocaine stuck in his stomach after seven days of ingesting the illicit substance in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia....
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos made a significant seizure on Wednesday, January 29, intercepting a consignment of 2,000 kilograms of Ghanaian Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, at Lekki beach. Two suspects, Sunday Awoyede and Christopher Cletus, were...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kano State Command, has arrested 18 suspects with different quantities of illicit substances in the state. The command’s spokesman, Mr Sadiq Muhammad-Maigatari, disclosed this in a statement in Kano on Friday. Muhammad-Maigatari quoted the State Commander of the agency, Abubakar Idris-Ahmad, as...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis enroute to the United Kingdom at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Attempt by 26-year-old Esther Onyinyechi Uzodinma, a 200-level student of nursing at the Noida International University, Uttar Pradesh, India, to swallow 76 wraps of cocaine hours before her return flight to the South Asian country through the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano,...