NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered what it described as increasingly sophisticated methods being employed by drug trafficking networks to move illicit substances.

The two-year escape of suspected drug kingpin, Festus Ibewuike, also known as Chidibest Ibewuike, has ended after operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) tracked him down and secured his arrest in Cotonou, Benin Republic.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a convicted cocaine trafficker who allegedly returned to the illicit drug trade under a new identity, after intelligence operations traced him to a 1.2kg cocaine shipment concealed in phone...

Marwa said the NDLEA must now target the economic foundations of drug trafficking by tracing, seizing and recovering the proceeds and instrumentalities of the criminal enterprise.

NDLEA operatives intercepted 47,200 pills of Captagon, popularly known as the ‘Jihadi drug’, concealed inside blocks of Ghanaian bathing soap at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The agency also recovered 3.9 million tablets of Tramaking and Tapentadol,...

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...