…Arrests 2 ladies with over 108kg Skunk, others
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, on Sunday, said it intercepted over 66 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, packaged as green tea, at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, said the seizure made on Thursday, June 5, 2025, was based on credible intelligence received ahead of the arrival of the consignment at the cargo wing of the airport.
He disclosed that the anti-narcotics agency had watch-listed the shipment and sustained surveillance around it for over three weeks before inviting other stakeholders for a joint examination last Thursday.
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“The Loud consignment weighing 62.20kg was concealed inside wraps of green tea that came from Thailand via UAE on an Emirates Airlines flight,” he revealed.
Babafemi also revealed that its operatives had, during another operation in Lagos, also intercepted a consignment of 1,665kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, along the Lekki-Ajah expressway.
” Two suspects, Gidado Ayinde and Obanla Oluwafemi, were promptly arrested in connection with the seizure”
In Kaduna, operatives of the state command of NDLEA on patrol along Abuja-Kaduna expressway on Tuesday, 3rd June, arrested 29-year-old Goodluck Nnaemeka with 612 bottles of codeine-based syrup and 2,970 pills of flunitrazepam.
” On the same day, a 52-year-old wanted drug dealer Kabiru Musa (a.k.a KB) was arrested at Kurmin Mashi. A total of 25.7kg skunk was earlier recovered from his base.
While a total of 9kg Loud was recovered from the spare tyre compartment of an Audi station wagon car marked AAA 975 XU driven by Atari Israel, 45, along Auchi road, Edo state,
” Two young ladies, Favour Joy and Joy Igwe, were on Tuesday, 3rd June nabbed at Ikpoba hill area of Benin city, while 106.57kg skunk, 1kg Loud, 800 grams of Colorado and 302 grams of methamphetamine were recovered from them.
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The Anti-Narcotics Agency said it has, however, continued to sustain the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA).
According to the Agency, ” social advocacy activities by NDLEA Commands equally continued across the country in the past week.
” Some of the institutions covered include: the Sir Usman Nagogo College of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Katsina; Fountain of Knowledge International Academy, Abakaliki, Ebonyi; Prof. Eyo Ita Municipal Model Primary School, Calabar, Cross River; Millennium High School, Egbeda, Lagos; and Community Secondary School, Ichida Anaocha, Anambra State.
The Zone 13 Command of NDLEA also paid a WADA advocacy visit to the Amayanabo of Nembe kingdom, Dr. Edmund Dakoru, Mingi Xii, in Nembe, Bayelsa state; among others.
