archiveBrig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd)

...RAIDS MUSHIN RECOVERS 99,867 PILLS OF OPIOIDS A drug kingpin wanted for attempts to ship illicit drug consignments to the United Kingdom has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) through interdiction operations that led to the seizure of four tons of illicit substances in the past week. This was disclosed on Sunday by the Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in Abuja. Obiorah Chigozie Samuel has been on the wanted list of the Agency since 15th September 2023 when a consignment of 1.500kg...

...INTERCEPTS UK BOUND 1,343.8KG SKUNK, KETAMINE A 29-year-old South African, identified as Erasmus Jean-Pierre, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in an attempt to export 2.6 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in his luggage to the Middle East. He was arrested on Wednesday, 23rd August 2023, as operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), thwarted his attempt to outwit them and recovered the illicit drug. In a statement on Sunday by the Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi said that NDLEA operatives intercepted...

…INTERCEPTS $20MIILION COUNTERFEIT NOTES IN ABUJA; ARRESTS WANTED TEENAGE BANDIT IN SOKOTO, OTHERS Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday, August 19, 2023, seized a multi-billion naira worth of illicit drugs at a warehouse tucked in the midst of a popular International Trade Fair Complex, Alaba, Ojo area of Lagos. Agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said items recovered from the warehouse owned by a wanted billionaire drug baron, include: 1.4 million (1,400,000) pills of tramadol 225mg weighing 826kgs; 3.2...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a fake couple, Mr. Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and Mrs. Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum 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 private part. Agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, on Sunday, said the two suspects were intercepted at Screening Point 1, Terminal 1 of the international wing of the Lagos Airport on Tuesday, August 1, 2023, while...

...AS NDLEA SECURES CONVICTION OF 1,445 DRUG TRAFFICKERS IN SIX MONTHS A 34-year-old South American man from Suriname, Dadda Lorenzo Harvy Albert, who was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Port Harcourt, Rivers state for bringing into Nigeria 117 parcels of cocaine concealed in extra-large latex condoms factory packed inside bottles of 100ml body spray, has been convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison. NDLEA’s Director of Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, on Wednesday, said...