Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Egwu Phillip Inya, a building engineer, while attempting to receive illicit drugs concealed in imported pressure machines. This was confirmed in a statement signed by the Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, and shared on the Agency’s website on Sunday. […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 59-year-old Nigerian businessman, Ezeokoli Sylva, for allegedly smuggling 700 grammes of cocaine concealed in his stomach. The arrest took place on Friday, November 29, 2024, at the E-Arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State. Sylva, who had lived in Brazil […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 50-year-old businessman, Osuoha Christian Iheanacho, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, for ingesting 90 wraps of cocaine. Osuoha was intercepted on Wednesday 20th November 2024 at the arrival hall of the Enugu airport during the inbound screening of passengers arriving from […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have thwarted attempts by drug syndicates to export large consignments of cocaine, methamphetamine, and opioids through Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State, and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, to the United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey, and Qatar. On November 5, 2024, NDLEA officers intercepted 13 parcels of […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have seized cocaine consignments worth N4bn at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos. The NDLEA said its operatives recovered the 845 wraps of cocaine weighing 18.72 kilogrammes from an international drug syndicate that operates between Brazil, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. “The drug consignments worth […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos have arrested two businessmen for attempting to import and export cocaine pellets and parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis through the airport. The businessmen: Ihejirika Okechukwu Emmanuel and Iwuagwu Ikedi Victory were arrested as well […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, have arrested a Thailand returnee, Oguejiofor Simonpeter, for importing 13.30kg of heroin worth over N3.192bn. Oguejiofor was arrested on October 7, 2024, while attempting to smuggle out of the airport the drug concealed in six backpacks and then packed into […]
A 41-year-old Canadian woman, Adrienne Munju, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for importing a large consignment of a strong strain of synthetic cannabis called ‘Canadian Loud’. The suspect was arrested during the inward clearance of passengers on a KLM airline flight from […]
An 80-year-old grandfather, Aremu Shojobi, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency with 14 kilogrammes of cannabis. According to the agency, Shojobi confessed to selling illicit drugs for the past 25 years. A statement on Sunday from the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, stated that the suspect obtained the drugs from […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have taken into custody a wanted drug baron, Alhaji Suleiman Ganiu Aremu (a.k.a Barryshine) two years after coming under the radar of the anti-narcotics Agency. Suleiman who is the Managing Director/CEO of Barryshine Suleiman Nigeria Ltd came under the Agency’s watchlist over his alleged role in […]
