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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dismantled a suspected transnational drug manufacturing network allegedly operated by Nigerian and Mexican nationals, following the discovery of a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory in Enugu State.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted illicit drugs with a combined street value of more than ₦3.4 billion in a series of intelligence-led operations conducted across Lagos, Edo, Niger, Delta, Ondo, Gombe, Imo states and the Federal Capital Territory.

Justice Obiora Egwuatu delivered the judgment on Thursday, bringing to an end the prosecution of Ann, who had pleaded guilty to the drug trafficking charges filed against her by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The latest operation, according to the anti-narcotics agency, represents another major breakthrough in its campaign against international drug cartels seeking to establish methamphetamine production bases in Nigeria's forests and rural communities.

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.