NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a disturbing mix of traditional and increasingly sophisticated methods being employed by drug traffickers across Nigeria, arresting a 101-year-old great-grandmother allegedly involved in retail cannabis dealing and intercepting cocaine concealed inside edible cassava flour popularly known as fufu.

NDLEA publicly destroyed 329,865.585 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, cannabis, tramadol, codeine syrup and other illicit drugs worth over ₦301 billion following a Federal High Court order covering concluded cases and abandoned seizures. The destroyed narcotics were intercepted...

A Lagos marble dealer was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport after NDLEA officers allegedly uncovered 1.55kg of cocaine concealed inside his luggage. Separate intelligence-led operations led to the recovery of 377,600 bottles of codeine syrup valued...

NDLEA arrests a 30-year-old Italy-based businessman at Enugu International Airport after he excretes 98 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.510kg allegedly swallowed for delivery in Europe. Operatives foil fresh international drug trafficking attempts by intercepting cocaine concealed in phone...

Federal High Court in Lagos convicts fugitive drug kingpin and former international footballer over separate cocaine importation offences linked to a 10-year investigation. Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu receives a 22-year prison sentence after being re-arrested nearly a decade after...

NDLEA dismantles international drug syndicates with coordinated operations that intercepted cocaine, Canadian Loud and opioids worth over ₦10 billion at Lagos Airport and Apapa Seaport. Balogun Market businessman identified as alleged kingpin after investigators traced a failed UK-bound...

NDLEA intercepts 1.63 million tramadol pills hidden in specially fabricated compartments of two trailers heading to Kano, disrupting what investigators describe as a major cross-border drug trafficking operation. Intelligence-led investigations uncover a transnational drug syndicate operating along the...

July 12, (THEWILL) — The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 38-year-old South African woman, Ms Will Jessica Ann, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, for allegedly attempting to smuggle 5.75 kilograms of heroin...

July 10 (THEWILL) — The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Friday, arraigned an alleged drug kingpin, Anochili Innocent, alongside three Mexican nationals and six other suspects before the Federal High Court in Lagos. THEWILL reports that the suspects...

July 8 (THEWILL) — The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to dismantling drug trafficking cartels across the country as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) disclosed that it seized illicit drugs worth over ₦1.5 trillion and arrested...