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Drug Trafficker Excretes 86 Wraps of Heroin
By Olaolu Fawole Operatives of the National Drug Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have recovered 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 in three major busts of drug cartels operating in Amuwo…
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NDLEA Arrest Two Drug Kingpins
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, 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…
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Sexagenarian Engages in Drug Trafficking to Marry New Wife
By Olaolu Fawole Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 67-year-old trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine, a criminal enterprise he claimed he ventured into to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh after…
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NDLEA Sets Record Straight on Mohbad’s Alleged Poisoning
The spokesman for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Femi Babafemi, has slammed claims that the late singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka MohBad, was poisoned in their custody. In an X post on Saturday, Babafemi argued that the deceased was not one of the Marlian Music acts arrested by the agency in 2022, as speculated by…
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NDLEA Nabs South African Drug Peddler at Abuja Airport
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 29-year-old South African, Erasmus Jean-Pierre for allegedly attempting to export 2.6 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in his luggage to the Middle East through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Wednesday. In a statement signed by the Media Officer of the NDLEA, Femi Babfemi and…
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NDLEA Hunts Drug Dealer for Crushing Operative
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has launched a manhunt for a Lekki Lagos-based notorious drug dealer, Sowunmi Ayodeji Kayode, who is now on the run after driving his luxury car to crush an officer in his bid to escape arrest when operatives were on a search of his house last weekend. Anti-narcotics officers…
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NDLEA Uncovers Opioids Worth N4.8bn in Lagos Warehouse
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Sunday, recovered N4.8 billion Worth Of Opioids in a warehouse in Lagos and also intercepted $ 20 million counterfeit notes in Abuja; arrests wanted teenage bandits in Sokoto. The Agency made this known in a statement signed by its Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi shared…
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NDLEA Nabs Woman with Cocaine in Private Part, Drug Peddler on Bail
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a fake couple Mr Onyebuchi Ilonzeh and his partner in crime, who identified as Mrs Nonyelum Ilonzeh, purportedly going for medical treatment in India, for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322 kilograms with 100grams of the drug also concealed in the woman’s vagina. The…
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NDLEA Nabs Artistes’ Manager Peddling Drugs at Lagos VIP Clubs
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Lekki-based artistes’ manager and his Ikoyi business accomplice who specialize in distributing illicit drugs to fun seekers at VIP night clubs and lounges in Lekki and Island axis of Lagos state. Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi said their arrest followed an…
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NDLEA Operatives Allegedly Kill Two
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have allegedly shot dead two persons including one Gafar Yusuf, in the Idioro area of Mushin, Lagos State. According to reports, the NDLEA operatives stormed the community around 10 pm on Wednesday to raid a drug den when they started shooting sporadically in a bid to achieve…
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NDLEA Recruitment: Final Lists of Successful Candidates Out
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has released the final lists of successful candidates for the 2023 recruitment exercise for Narcotic Officer and Narcotic Assistant cadres. A statement released on Sunday by the agency spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said successful candidates for cadet, trainees are to report at the NDLEA Academy in Jos and NSCDC College…
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NDLEA Arrests Drug Baron, Mule Given Cocaine Wraps to Swallow
Nemesis has caught up with a notorious drug kingpin who specializes in sponsoring young Nigerians to traffick Class A drugs to Europe, especially Italy. Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), stormed his hotel room in Okota area of Lagos late on Friday 21st July as he was preparing a recruited courier to…
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NDLEA Prosecutes Over 30,000 Drug Offenders
The Chairman of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brigadier-General (retd) Mohammed Buba Marwa, on Monday, in Abuja, revealed that the agency arrested 31,675 drug offenders and seized 6,252 tonnes of illicit drugs nationwide since February 2021. He said 5,147 of those arrested have earned jail terms, including 35 barons. “In the past 29…
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NDLEA Intercepts 5,344kg Imported Skunk in Lagos
By Olaolu Fawole Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted two imported consignments of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at the Alfa beach, Lekki area of Lagos state. Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy of NDLEA in a…
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NDLEA Arrests Two Qatar-based Drug Kingpins
By Olaolu Fawole Qatar-based drug kingpins, Eyah Celestine Nnamdi, alias Murphy and Ugwuoke Peter Oluchukwu have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA following the interception of their methamphetamine consignment at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos. According to a statement by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy…
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NDLEA Uncovers Lab Producing Methamphetamine
By Olaolu Fawole Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have uncovered a secret laboratory producing deadly illicit substance, Methamphetamine in Lagos State. The lab was located in a residential community in Ikeja, where already packaged sachets of the drug and various precursor chemicals used in the production were recovered. Femi Babafemi, Director,…
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NDLEA Wages War on Drug Barons in Osun State
By Folake Oye The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Osun State Command has arrested seventeen persons, fourteen males, and three females during its mop-up operation in the state. The operation which lasted four days was held at Sabo Area of Ilesa where hoodlums engaged the officers in a gun duel. The hoodlums after the…
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NDLEA, NSCDC Collaborate on Checking Menace of Drug Abuse
National drug law enforcement agency, NDLEA has partnered with Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC for a secure and drug-free society. The new NDLEA Commander in Oyo state, Mr Joe-Fadile Olayinka stated this during a courtesy visit to NSCDC State Headquarters, Agodi Ibadan. Mr. Olayinka commended the Oyo State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil…
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NDLEA Intercepts Explosives Enroute Niger
By Olaolu Fawole National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA operatives have intercepted a consignment of 32 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, being taken to bandits camp in Niger state. With this development, Chairman of the Agency, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Retd) has since ordered the immediate transfer of a suspect, Musa Muhammadu caught with…
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NDLEA Intercepts N.5bn Worth of Meth Enroute UK
By Olaolu Fawole Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a large consignment of methamphetamine concealed in powdered custard containers as part of a consolidated cargo going to London, United Kingdom at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos. Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy…
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NDLEA Intercepts Drug Consignments in Imported Car, Food Stuffs
By Olaolu Fawole Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have seized 126 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 63 kilograms concealed in a used Toyota Corolla car imported from Toronto, Canada at the Tincan port in Lagos. Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy of NDLEA in a statement…
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NDLEA Arrests Intending Lesser Hajj Pilgrims with Cocaine
By Olaolu Fawole Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja, Lagos State, have arrested a widower, Ariyibi Ahmed Olaseinde and a divorcee, Akanbi Silifat Tunrayo who were going for lesser hajj in Saudi Arabia for attempting to export 14.4 kilograms of cocaine concealed in lace…
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FEDPOLY Ilaro Student in NDLEA Net for Drug Offence
… as NDLEA intercepts drug consignments in winter jackets, body lotion at Lagos airport By Olaolu Fawole A 22-year-old HND 1 female student of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun state, Isoyo Iveren Susan was on Saturday, 15th April, 2023, arrested for dealing in illicit drugs. Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy of NDLEA, in a statement…
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Businessman Conceals Cocaine in Slippers
By Olaolu Fawole Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a businessman, Molokwu Nwachukwu, who frequents China, Dubai, Pakistan, and Vietnam, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos for concealing thirty-six (36) parcels of cocaine in different parts of his check-in bags, hand luggage and two pairs of slippers,…
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Ex-Boko Haram Fighter, Traditional Ruler Arrested for Drug Trafficking
By Olaolu Fawole A rehabilitated ex-fighter of the Boko Haram terror group, Alayi Madu and the traditional ruler of Kajola, a border community between Ondo and Edo state, Baale Akinola Adebayo are among 37 persons arrested over 2.2 tons of illicit drugs seized by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the…
