NDLEA NABS INTERNATIONAL DRUG SYNDICATE, ARRESTS FIVE MEMBERS
Again, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives have smashed an international drug syndicate with networks in some parts...
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UN ASSEMBLY: DRUG CARTELS DAMAGING ENVIRONMENT THROUGH ILLICIT CROP CULTIVATION, DEFORESTATION – MARWA
Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd) has said that the agency is planning alternative development strategies that would take drug cartels out of business and protect the environment from the damaging effects of illicit drug cultivation and production. The NDLEA boss stated this while outlining efforts by Nigeria to curb the menace of substance abuse and illicit drug production and trafficking in his presentation at the third committee session of the ongoing 78th United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, in...
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...
NDLEA ARRESTS SOUTH AFRICAN WITH METHAMPHETAMINE AT ABUJA AIRPORT
...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...
NDLEA NABS INDIA-BOUND FAKE COUPLE, EXCRETES 184 WRAPS OF COCAINE, WOMAN HIDES DRUG IN PRIVATE PART
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...