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...NABS BENINOISE, NIGERIEN, OTHERS Twelve consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a Drug Trafficking were intercepted at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu, on Saturday 9th December 2023 by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). A businessman, Augustine Justine Emeka, 44, who claims he deals in the copper wire was arrested at the airport upon his arrival from Douala, Cameroon via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Ethiopia airline with 12 consignments, consisting of 797 pellets of cocaine weighing 17.6 kilograms. Disclosing this on Sunday, the Director...

...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...

..ARRESTS KINGPIN BEHIND FAKE COUPLE’S COCAINE; RECOVERS LUXURY VEHICLES Attempts by drug syndicates to outwit operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have been thwarted as they intercepted various quantities of Ephedrine, Skunk and nitrous oxide, popularly known as "Laughing Gas" concealed in Semovita packs and dry pepper being shipped to South Africa and Kenya through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos. They were members of Transnational Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTO), and have been arrested, their mansions raided and their luxury vehicles seized. In a statement...

Operatives of a Special Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have taken down three major illicit drug syndicates, in intelligence-led operations across some parts of Lagos State, leading to the arrest of a baroness and four other kingpins with multi-billion naira worth of Cocaine, Opioids and Loud recovered from their hideouts. The Agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said a female head of one of the syndicates, Faith Ebele Nwankwo was arrested on Wednesday 9th August at her residence, House...

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...