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NDLEA NABS A 70-YEAR-OLD GRANDMA, HER SON FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

A 70-year-old grandma, identified as Selifat Funke Cole, has been arrested with her son, Babajide Ayorinde Cole, for having 117.900kg of cannabis sativa. They were arrested on Thursday, 21st December 2023, by NDLEA operatives following a raided house in the Mushin area of Lagos. In the same vein, operatives of the Lagos Command on Wednesday 20th December conducted a search operation on two shops marked Chex Mat Global Link Limited at the Trade Fair complex in the Ojo area of Lagos where 258 cartons of codeine-based cough syrup and eight...
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OPS WATER GUARD: NN ARRESTS GHANAIANS WITH 5,000KG OF CANNABIS SATIVA

A renewed and reinvigorated efforts of the Nigerian Navy to ensure that the maritime sector doesn't serve as a conduit pipe for smuggling illicit drugs and perpetration of illegalities, a foreigner has been nabbed by Operation Water Guard personnel in Lagos.  Operating under the Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT’s Patrol Team, under the strategic leadership of the Commander Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT and Maritime Component Commander, Operation AWATSE, Commodore Kolawole Olumide Oguntuga, successfully intercepted a huge wooden boat, laden with over 120 bags of narcotics suspected to be Cannabis Sativa. The...
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NDLEA NABS OMAN-BASED HOTEL ATTENDANT WITH 29KGS OF SKUNK

...ARRESTS TWO BUSINESSMEN FOR INGESTING COCAINE, HEROIN IN ABUJA It was another season of arrests and seizures as operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), arrested two businessmen at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja. They were nabbed with consignments of cocaine and heroin going to Hong Kong and France concealed in their bellies after their body scan revealed they ingested illicit drugs. The arrests were contained in a statement by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Abuja on Sunday. While 38-year-old ThankGod Chimamkpa Emenike was...
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NDLEA ARRESTS WANTED KINGPIN, CHADIAN, GRANDPA OVER LONDON-BOUND SHIPMENT OF DRUGS

...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...