The Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced that it recovered 417.3 kg of illicit drugs estimated to be worth N1,042,500,000 in an 80-room new hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos.
A press release that was issued on Sunday, April 27, by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said that the new hotel is used as cover for distributing illicit substances.
The NDLEA operatives raided the hotel between Friday, 25th and Saturday 26th, April 2025.
In another major interdiction in Jigawa State with a follow up operation in Kano, NDLEA operatives, acting on intelligence on Wednesday, 23rd April, seized consignments of opioids being moved from Kano to Niger Republic and Yobe state through Jigawa. The psychoactive substances were being moved at about 2:30a.m. on Wednesday along Kano- Ringim Road, Gumel, when anti-narcotic officers on patrol intercepted the consignments.
Recovered from the Sienna vehicle were 200,000 pills of tramadol 250mg and 217,500 capsules of pregabalin.
A swift follow up operation in Kano led to the arrest of the supplier at a residence located at Mil Tara, Layin Technical Area of Kano while additional 1,584,000 pills of tramadol 250mg were discovered and evacuated.
This brings the total number of the recovered opioids to 2,001,500 pills.
Barely a week after NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) uncovered 20 parcels of cocaine concealed inside religious books going to Saudi Arabia at a logistics company in Lagos, the operatives have again intercepted another shipment of 46 wraps of cocaine weighing 547grams hidden in body cream going to the Middle East country.
The seizure was made on Wednesday, 23rd April, at a courier firm in Lagos. Another consignment intercepted same day include: 1.8kg pentazocine injection and 60grams bromazepam tablets heading to Canada.
At the Seme border area of Badagry Lagos, three Ghanaian ladies were on Sunday 20th April arrested at the Gbaji check point by NDLEA operatives while attempting to smuggle combined 4.8 kilograms of Ghana Loud, a strong strain of cannabis into Nigeria.
In Kano, a 60-year-old grandma was nabbed on Friday 25th April at Samegu area of Kumbotso LGA with 5.6kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, while another suspect was taken into custody following the seizure of 100 litres of codeine syrup from him at Yelwa area of Dala LGA.
A total of 3,814.9kg skunk was destroyed on two farms in Ugbodu community, Ovia North East LGA, Edo State on Thursday 24th April when NDLEA operatives raided the plantations.
The War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, social advocacy activities by NDLEA Commands equally continued across the country in the past week. Some of them include: WADA sensitisation lecture delivered to students and staff of Dan-Doro Community Arabic Secondary School, Doro, Katsina; St. James Anglican School, Badariya, Kebbi; Federal Government Girls College, Tambuwal, Sokoto; and members of Oganiru age grade, Onitsha, Anambra State, while the Lagos State Strategic Command of NDLEA paid WADA advocacy visit to the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, HRM Oba Kabir Adewale Shotobi, among others.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, Lagos, Kano, Jigawa, Edo and Seme Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) also praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for ensuring a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
