The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has established five new strategic commands and deployed body cameras to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the agency’s operations. The NDLEA Chairman, retired Brig.- Gen. Buba Marwa said this during the decoration ceremony of some elevated personnel of the agency...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has arrested a couple, Mmadu Agbakoba and Ijeoma Agbakoba as well as their associate, for trafficking cocaine worth N2.1 billion. The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a post via...
The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa has said that there was no hiding place for drug barons and their mules in the country. Marwa said this while reacting to the conviction of a Delhi, Indian-Bound drug trafficker, Charles Ogbonna, who bagged 25...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), on Sunday said it intercepted 6,125 cartons of codeine syrup worth N7.3 billion in Rivers State. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, confirmed the seizure in a post issued via the agency’s X handle on Sunday. Babafemi...
The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, has said that illicit drugs and substances abuse was enabling crimes and criminality across the country. Marwa said this in his presentation during a National Youth Conference organised by the Vanguard Against Drug Abuse...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A snake guarded shrine used to store illicit drugs in Igor community, Benin city, Edo state, has been raided by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), who detected a specially constructed large hole storage in a wall covered with wallpapers...
The Forward Operating Base (FOB) of the Nigerian Navy, Badagry, Lagos State, on Thursday, handed over four sacks of cannabis sativa to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in Badagry. Lt.-Cdr. Bitus Zoaka, the Base Operations Officer, FOB, representing the Commanding Officer FOB, Navy Captain Augustus Amakiri,...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, refused to grant bail to the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and four other police officers charged with alleged drug trafficking. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that other defendants in the charge marked FHC/ABJ/57/2022, are four members of the disbanded...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – A cartel controlled by a drug baron, 49-year old Kelechi Monday Nwaobasi and his 50-year old elder sister, Ms. Chinwe Rose Nwaobasi, has been taken down by officers of the Special Operation Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) following the arrest...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – A total of 230,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and 200mg were recovered from the duo of Yasir Rabi’u, 23, and Abubakar Ado, 30, who are major distributors of illicit drugs in Kano and Jigawa states, when they were arrested by NDLEA operatives on...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Kaduna State Command, said its operatives have arrested 110 suspects and recovered 520.385kgs of illicit substances in the month of May. Its Commander, Mr Samaila Danmalam, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Kaduna. Danmalam said,...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – No fewer than 4 prospective pilgrims bound for Saudi Arabia were apprehended by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos with cocaine consignments. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement issued via the agency’s X handle on Thursday....
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Large consignments of codeine-based syrup and Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis worth over Two Billion One Hundred and Eighty-Five Million Naira (N2,185,000,000.00) in street value have been intercepted at the Port Harcourt seaports, Onne and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 48-year-old Paris, France-bound businessman, Emmanuel Okechuku Orjinze for ingesting 111 wraps of cocaine, which he excreted after days of observation in the agency’s custody following his arrest at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officers operating at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos have dismantled another drug trafficking syndicate at the airport. This followed the arrest of four members of the network and the seizure of a total of 8kg of methamphetamine and...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said that the move by the Nigerian Senate to impose death penalty for drug trafficking offenders would not yield the desired result. UNODC Country Representative, Oliver Stolpe, said this at a two-day Media Personnel Training organised in collaboration...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A couple, Kazeem Omogoriola Owoalade (alias Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun) and Rashidat Ayinke Owoalade (alias Bolarinwa Rashidat Ayinke), who runs a cocaine cartel from India has been declared wanted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). This follows the arrest of four...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said its operatives have intercepted three trailer loads of opioids at Abule Ado in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. The NDLEA also said three suspects were arrested in connection with the seizure...
The Senate on Thursday, prescribed death sentence as penalty for trafficking in hard drugs and other substances in Nigeria. This followed the passage of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Amendment Bill 2024. It also prescribed not more than 15 years imprisonment without option of fine, for...