Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a businessman, Molokwu Nwachukwu, who frequents China, Dubai, Pakistan, and Vietnam, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos for concealing thirty-six (36) parcels of cocaine in different parts of his check-in bags, hand luggage and two...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested the founder and General Overseer of Seraphic and Sabbath Assembly, Lagos State, High Priest Nnodu Azuka Kenrick; a student of Emmanuel College of Theology, Samanda, Ibadan, Oyo State, Udezuka Udoka and their freight agent, Oyoyo Mary Obasi.
They were...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have again seized 75.75kg worth of Cannabis Indica concealed in used vehicles imported from Canada.
This burst comes barely a month after operatives at the Tincan seaport intercepted a consignment of 24.5kgs of the same substance, which came from Montreal, Canada,...
By Ibe Pascal
A criminologist and member of the Center For Innovative And Pragmatic Development Initiative, CiPDI, Chinenye Nwadike Fasugba has highlighted the recommendations on the roles of civil societies in the implementation of drugs policies.
Fasugba spoke on Tuesday during the United Nations partnership forum side effect organized by the...
A 20ft laden container has fallen on a commercial bus in the Ojuelegba area of Lagos State, crushing nine passengers to death.
Investigations reveal that the commercial bus was picking up passengers at the bus stop along the Ojuelegba Bridge when the truck lost control and fell over the side...
Buba Marwa, the chairperson of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says the agency secured its highest number of convictions within one year in 2022.
He said this on Wednesday at a media briefing to mark his second anniversary in office.
He warned that unrepentant drug barons and cartels will...
Drugs intercepted by NDLEA operatives
NDLEA has intercepted 3,975kg of skunk and 58,200 tramadol pills in four states and arrested 11 suspects in connection with the seizure.
Its spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi stated on Sunday in Abuja that the arrest of 11 suspects in interdiction operations led to the seizure...
Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has disclosed that the Agency has in 22 months seized over One Hundred Million pills of pharmaceutical opioid, Tramadol that could have impacted negatively on the youth population and national productivity in...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 60-year-old grandmother and a pregnant woman among those busted during interdiction operations.
Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi said, “During theoperstions 5,527.15 kilograms of methamphetamine and cannabis sativa, as well as 132,090 tablets of tramadol and 2,000 bottles...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has declared an Abuja drug lord, Ibrahim Momoh, popular as ‘Ibrahim Bendel’ wanted.
Operatives of the NDLEA had stormed the warehouse of the notorious drug lord and ex-convict, where 81 jumbo bags of cannabis weighed 1,278kgs.
The drug lord had escaped from prison custody...
