Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 34-year-old Ugandan woman, Ms. Farida Nansubuga, for allegedly attempting to smuggle a consignment of cocaine concealed in her private parts out of Nigeria. According to the agency, Nansubuga had arrived in Nigeria with members of her church...
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Lagos State Police Command has uncovered a suspected high-tech indoor cannabis farm hidden inside a residential property in Apapa area of the state, following an intelligence-led operation. The discovery was made on November 2, 2026, after police operatives received credible information about activities suspected to be linked to illegal...
Federal Government has announced that candidates who reached the oral interview stage of the ongoing recruitment into the country’s paramilitary services will begin checking their status from October 28, as the recruitment portal reopens for a compulsory free drug screening before appointment letters are issued. The Civil Defence, Correctional,...
The United States (US) has commended the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for dismantling four methamphetamine laboratories linked to Mexican drug cartels in Nigeria, as Chairman, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), called for sustained or increased American support. The commendation came on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, during...
NDLEA seizes over 3.9 tonnes of drugs, arrests scores, recovers rifles and ammunition across Nigeria
NDLEA seizes over 3.9 tonnes of drugs, arrests scores, recovers rifles and ammunition across Nigeria
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intensified its nationwide crackdown on drug trafficking, intercepting large consignments of illicit drugs, arresting multiple suspects and recovering firearms and ammunition in coordinated operations across several states. The agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed the operations in a statement issued on Sunday.. According...
At 83, most grandmothers are asking for rest. Not Mrs. Uloma Uchechi Sunday, who was arrested again by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with consignments of Methamphetamine and Colorado concealed around her waist, barely a year after she was nabbed, prosecuted and convicted for the...
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intensified its nationwide war against drug trafficking, intercepting illicit drugs worth more than N5 billion at the Apapa, Tincan Island and Onne seaports. The agency also destroyed over 20,000 kilograms of cannabis on a large plantation in Osun State, recovered dangerous narcotics...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a Milan-bound businessman, Philip Tunde, with 4.80 kilograms of cocaine concealed in the soles of shoes and the railings of travel bags at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this...
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives have uncovered one of the year’s biggest opioid hauls during a joint examination of three monitored consignments, leading to the seizure of Two Million Five Hundred and Fifty-Five Thousand (2,550,000 ) pills of Tramaking 225mg, Tramaking 250mg, and Royal Tapentadol 250mg, with...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 25-year-old newlywed businessman Lovely Chukwulobelu at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu, for attempting to traffic 72 wraps of cocaine which he ingested, to Portugal where he resides. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, announced this in...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Drug Enforcement Authority (NDEA) of the United Arab Emirates, marking a new chapter in the fight against drug trafficking between both countries. The MoU was signed on Saturday, 26th September 2026, on...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday 25th September 2026 arraigned Afolabi Kazeem Michael, popularly known as KC Luxury, and two other accomplices, Boniface Freeman Ochoche Sule and Ikechukwu Ekugo Patriarch, before Hon. Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on a 22-count charge bordering...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has once again struck a decisive blow against transnational organised crime with the dismantling of a Nigerian-Mexican drug cartel operating a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory in Eziama community in Obeagu, Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State. Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi,...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recorded one of its biggest nationwide anti-drug operations, intercepting illicit drugs worth over N3.4 billion and arresting several suspects, including a man who allegedly posed as a senior police officer to transport drugs across the country. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi,...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested three young suspects with locally fabricated AK-47 rifles and recovered large quantities of illicit drugs during separate operations across several states. The agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said the operatives also destroyed a 5,000-kilogram...
A 38-year-old South African lady, Ms. Will Jessica Ann has been convicted and sentenced to 40 years in jail for importing 5.75 kilograms of heroin into Nigeria. The convict was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja...
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dismantled yet another industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory and arrested a Mexican drug kingpin who was attempting to flee the country through the Lagos airport, in a fresh operation that further exposes the desperation by transnational cartels to infiltrate Nigeria’s forests and rural communities....
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has successfully secured the arrest and repatriation of Festus Ibewuike, alias Chidibest Ibewuike, a fugitive drug kingpin who had evaded arrest for over two years following the interception of the single largest heroin consignment ever recorded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport...
Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has distanced itself from a truck intercepted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Ondo State with 2,145 kilograms of cannabis allegedly concealed in a hidden compartment. The company also praised the anti-narcotics agency for what it described as its...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have, in a coordinated sweep across the country arrested a convicted cocaine trafficker who disguised himself as a herbal tea merchant in Lagos. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in Lagos....