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
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted consignments of cocaine and pharmaceutical opioids concealed in ladies’ sanitary pads and hair treatment cream containers heading to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Cyprus at three courier companies in Lagos. In a statement on Sunday by the agency’s Spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, he saidin one of
A wanted ex-beauty queen, Aderinoye Queen Christmas, has surrendered to the Lagos State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency after about eight months in hiding. The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, announced this in a statement on Sunday. He said the suspect, born as Oluwadamilola Aderinoye, was declared
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a total of Thirty-One Million One Hundred and Twenty-Four Thousand Six Hundred (31, 124, 600) pills of tramadol 225mg and bottles of codeine-based syrup worth over Seventeen Billion Nine Hundred and Thirty-Two Million Two Hundred Thousand Naira (N17, 932, 200, 000.00) in street value
A Vietnam-bound businessman, Ibeanusi Nosike, has excreted 68 wraps of cocaine after he was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The NDLEA had on August 12 arrested a Vietnam-bound businessman, Paul Mbadugha, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport after he tested positive for
The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested five persons, including Alhaji Mohammed Kabara, Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, over an alleged multi-billion naira drugs supply scam. Also arrested by the commission is the chairman of the state branch of the Association for Local Governments of Nigeria, Alhaji Abdullahi
A Vietnam-bound businessman, Paul Mbadugha, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. Mbadugha was apprehended after testing positive for ingesting cocaine. A statement on Sunday by spokesperson Femi Babafemi confirmed that Mbadugha excreted a total of 88 wraps of cocaine, weighing 1.710 kilograms. Babafemi
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted no less than 36 parcels of a strong strain of cannabis concealed in six cartons of tins of branded Nestle Cerelac baby food, with six containers in each package at the SAHCOL export shed of Lagos airport and at a courier firm in
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Wednesday said its operatives have arrested the leader of Mushin, Lagos drug cartel identified as Sulaiman Jimoh aka Temo. The agency stated that Temo, who had been on its wanted list, had been evading arrest until he was eventually nabbed. His arrest comes after a drug baron,
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted another batch of seven containers with 1,229,400 bottles of codeine worth N9, 835,200,000.00. The shipments were seized at the Onne Ports in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State. The seizure comes barely three weeks after 6,125 cartons of codeine syrup worth N7, 350,000,000.00