Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has asked all those still involved in the illicit drug business to turn over a new leaf or risk losing their freedom and assets in the new year. The anti-drug czar in his new year message said the […]
Three drug traffickers wearing uniforms of security agencies to escape scrutiny have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), with over 427 kilograms of illicit drugs in Borno State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Thursday explained that a certain Yakubu […]
Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have foiled the desperate bids by drug cartels to push out millions of illicit drugs across Lagos and other parts of the country for the Yuletide as they seized 8,381,600 capsules and tablets of Tramadol as well as 56,782 bottles of codeine among others in major raids […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have raided two clandestine drug stores in Lagos State where a pregnant woman, Eze Joy Chioma, was arrested with 1,442kgs of imported skunk, and four men including a 62-year-old Basset Emmanuel, were arrested with 182,000 tablets of Tramadol. Spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said the […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted 64,000 pump action gun cartridges and a new pump-action gun at a store located at Success Line, Marine modern market, Onitsha, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra state. The discovery, which led to the arrest of an arms dealer, 34-year-old Donatus Onyemachi Igwebudu […]
The Ebonyi command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it seized about 196 pinches of methamphetamine, popularly called “Mkpurummiri” from suspected drug dealers from January to date. Mr Isa Adoro, the state NDLEA Commander disclosed this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakaliki on Thursday. Adoro said that […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Ghanaian and two Nigerians at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, and at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, respectively for drug trafficking. The spokesman of the agency, Mr Femi Babafemi, said on Sunday in Abuja that 9.953kgs of cocaine and Methamphetamine […]
The Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa has reiterated the agency’s commitment to increase the risk burden of trafficking in drugs and psychotropic substances in Nigeria. Marwa gave the assurance on Wednesday at the handing over ceremony of a provisional detention facility equipped by […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said it is committed to clamping down on the consumption of methamphetamine, popularly known as mkpurummiri. Mr Isah Adoro, Commander of NDLEA, Ebonyi Command, during a one-day security sensitisation campaign, organised by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Tuesday in Abakaliki said mkpurummiri is a very dangerous […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered a huge methamphetamine-making laboratory in Asaba, the capital of Delta State. Methamphetamine is popularly known as Mkpurummiri in South East Nigeria, and has become a menace among youths. Officials of the agency’s Special Enforcement Team (SET) also busted the masterminds of the major drug […]
