Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says he will not tolerate internal sabotage in the renewed war against substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in the country. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said...
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday destroyed 15.7 tonnes of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances seized in Kano State. The NDLEA Chairman, Brig.-Gen. (rtd) Buba Marwa, said the drugs were seized by state Command and Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Special Area Command, between...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have raided a lounge in Osogbo on Saturday where a weird party organised for illicit substance abuse was to hold. The operatives arrested some of the organisers who were found with drug exhibits....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Seven years after his escape from prison custody following his conviction for drug dealing, a notorious major distributor of illicit substances within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Ibrahim Momoh, popularly known as Ibrahim Bendel, has been arrested by operatives of the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recovered 63,767.3kg of Indian hemp and 82,320 illicit pills in eight states in the last one week. NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi stated this on Sunday in Abuja and added that five persons,...
The Forward Operating Base (FOB) of the Nigerian Navy in Badagry, Lagos, on Sunday intercepted 50 sacks of cannabis sativa worth N70m at Gbethrome community in Badagry. Lt.Cdr Kelly Umoru, FOB Base Operations Officer, said personnel seized the items at about 6.30.a.m. at an uncompleted building near the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said its operatives have arrested a notorious drug dealer, 45-year-old Godwin Emuneyin who is physically challenged and uses his wheelchair as cover to deal in illicit substances such as methamphetamine and cannabis in...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 14.5 million pills of tramadol and bottles of codeine syrup worth more than N13 billion in street value in Lagos in three days. The hauls were made in three major busts of drug cartels operating at Amuwo Odofin; at...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – No less than Fourteen Million, Four Hundred and Eighty One Thousand, Five Hundred and Nineteen (14, 481, 519) pills of Tramadol and bottles of codeine syrup worth over Thirteen Billion Naira (N13,000,000,000) in street value have been recovered by operatives of the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said its operatives have arrested three blind men operating an illicit drug ring between Lagos and Kano, while another blind member of the syndicate is still at large. A statement issued by the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) has taken into custody two wanted heads of transnational criminal organisations with multi-billion-naira worth of illicit drugs and assets seized from them. This was after weeks of intelligence-led operations across the country and outside Nigeria....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – NDLEA seized 4.9 million dollars and 57 million CFA suspected to be counterfeits on the Abuja-Lokoja Highway on Tuesday. The CFA, backed by the French treasury is the legal tender in Francophone West and Central Africa accepted in 14 countries. The...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A 67-year old drug trafficker, Clement Chukwuemeka has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Oct. 3 for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine. Chukwuemeka told NDLEA operatives that he engaged in...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday debunked the claim by the police that it had not responded to an enquiry sent to it on deceased singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad. Police in Lagos State had told a news conference on Friday that the NDLEA had...
Vice Chancellor, University of Abuja, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’allah has disclosed that students who intend to study in the university must undertake and present a drug test before admission. Na’allah, who made this known at the 27th Pre- Convocation briefing in Abuja on Wednesday said the institution is working with...
The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT on Wednesday handed over 2,640kg of substance, suspected to be cannabis sativa worth N200 million, to the Nigerian Drug Law Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos. The Commander, NNS BEECROFT, Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga, handed over the exhibits to NDLEA officials at NNS BEECROFT, Apapa,...
There was a time in Nigeria when the name, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) suggested a dynamic, positive and functional institution. Perilous, and as the war against drug crimes and related offences was, society and criminals were conscious of the institution’s existence. During the time, everything was bright and beautiful...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a kingpin wanted for attempts to ship illicit drug consignments to the United Kingdom. This tops the list of arrests made by NDLEA Operatives through interdiction operations that led to the seizure of four...
President Bola Tinubu has implored the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies in Africa to renew the fight against substance abuse. Tinubu made the call, while declaring open the 31st meeting of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Africa (HONLAF), on Tuesday in Abuja. ...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have intercepted four tons of illicit and controlled drugs in seven states within one week. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. Mr. Babafemi listed the ...