Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says the agency has rehabilitated and counselled 29,400 drug users within three years. Marwa spoke on Monday during a visit by Christopher Musa, chief of defence staff (CDS) to NDLEA’s headquarters in Abuja. Marwa said the agency seized 7,590 tons of illicit drugs […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says the mansion used as a laboratory for the production of methamphetamine in Victoria Garden City (VGC), Lagos, has been forfeited to the federal government. In July 2022, the NDLEA busted the laboratory domiciled at K-5A/2, Road 14, VGC. The boreholes and water bodies within 500 metres […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Katsina State, acting on intelligence have disrupted a pre-wedding ceremony drug abuse competition in a community popularly known as Shola Quarters, Katsina and arrested 25 youths participating in the drug party. Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said this on Sunday in a statement. […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has revealed that its operatives intercepted 12 consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a drug trafficking organisation, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, on Saturday, December 9. The spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi revealed that the 12 cocaine consignments was recovered from a businessman, Augustine […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday in Abuja, destroyed over 30 tons of illicit drugs and substances worth an estimated street value of N2.58 billion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the drugs were seized by operatives of the FCT Command of the NDLEA and that of the Nnamdi […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered illicit substances bound for Europe, United Arab Emirates and Asia. Disclosing this in a statement on Sunday, NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said the illicit substances intercepted included various quantities of methamphetamine and opioids concealed in hems of new jeans trousers, dolls, buttons, local […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kaduna State Command , says its operatives have arrested 90 suspects and dismantled 13 illicit drug joints in Kaduna. The NDLEA’s state Commander, Mr Samaila Danmallam, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday, that the arrest and the dismantling of illicit drug joints were made […]
Two Lagos businessmen ThankGod Emenike and Chidike Prince have been arrested for concealing cocaine and heroin in their bellies on board flights to Hong Kong and France. The suspects were arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, the nation’s capital on Friday, […]
. As NDLEA intercepts Cocaine, Meth consignments going to Saudi, Europe; seizes 4.8 tons of skunk in Imo, Edo, Ondo, Kano, Ekiti Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 40-year-old Madrid, Spain-based ‘businessman’, Sherif Egbo Ally at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja while attempting to board an […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have taken into custody two wanted heads of transnational criminal organisations with a multi-billion-naira worth of illicit drugs. The anti-narcotics agency also seized assets from the traffickers after weeks of intelligence-led operations within and outside the country. This was made known on Sunday by the agency’s […]
