OKRIKA (CONVERSEER) – A high-tension wire from an electric pole has killed one pregnant woman, a staff of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and four other people in Okrika, Rivers State. According to The Nation, the incident happened at about 1:12 AM on Monday. The high-voltage wire cut and fell on a residential…
A cocaine consignment consisting of 20 parcels with a total weight of 500grams and buried in the pages of the religious books was uncovered at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday 15th April 2025 when NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) were searching through export cargos going to Saudi…
CALABAR – Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have seized over 659 units of illicit drugs worth N18 million in Cross River State. The breakthrough was made by the Cross River/Calabar Free Trade Zone and Akwa Ibom Area of the NCS, who, in turn, handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)…
In a near-death experience, a 59-year-old businessman Chijioke Nnanna Igbokwe underwent a surgery, exploratory laparotomy, to let out 57 out of 81 pellets of cocaine stuck in his stomach seven days after he ingested the illicit substance in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Igbokwe was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at…
…as NDLEA intercepts N9bn worth opioids in Rivers, recovers large consignments of illicit drugs in Ikorodu warehouse, commercial bus in Taraba A 41-year-old Canadian woman, Adrienne Munju, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, for importing a large consignment of…
Operatives of the Lagos State Strategic Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday, 20th September 2024, arrested an 80-year-old grandfather, Pa Aremu Shojobi, with 14 kilogrammes of cannabis at his home in Iyana Ipaja area of the state. In his statement, the Octogenarian claimed he has been in the business of…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have taken into custody a wanted drug baron, Alhaji Suleiman Ganiu Aremu (a.k.a Barryshine), two years after coming under the radar of the anti-narcotics Agency. Suleiman, who is the Managing Director/CEO of Barryshine Suleiman Nigeria Ltd, came under the Agency’s watchlist over his alleged role in…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos, have arrested two passengers travelling to Doha on a Qatar Airways flight at the screening point of terminal 2 after they tested positive for ingestion of illicit substances on Friday, 21st June. This was disclosed via…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) have agreed to work together to curb the menace of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in communities across the country. This was one of the agreements reached at a meeting when the National President of ALGON, Hon. Aminu…