NDLEA

November 08, (THEWILL) - The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered plans by some drug cartels to smuggle a lethal synthetic opioid, Fentanyl, into the Nigerian market. The Agency, in a statement issued on Tuesday, by its Spokesperson,...

November 08, (THEWILL) - The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered another extreme method deployed by a drug trafficker to conceal illicit drugs. In a post on Tuesday, NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said the...

November 06, (THEWILL) - Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted two Pakistani businessmen with 8 kilograms of cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA). A statement issued on Sunday, by the Spokesperson of the...

November 06, (THEWILL) - A former Nigerian footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior, has been convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Lagos Federal High Court. Junior was handed the jail term by Justice Nicholas Oweibo, after he pleaded guilty...

November 03, (THEWILL) - Over 19,000 drug offenders have been arrested, with more than 6,000 jailed and over 12,000 others rehabilitated since 2021, the National Drug and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said on Thursday. It added that a total of...

November 01, (THEWILL) - The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has declared wanted, Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels, Alhaji Ademola Afolabi Kazeem, (a.k.a Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed), over offences bordering on exportation and trafficking of illicit...

October 30, (THEWILL) - The village head of Gidan Abba, in Bodinga local government area of Sokoto State, Abubakar Ibrahim, was among eleven suspects arrested in interdiction operations in which nine hundred and ninety-one thousand, three hundred and twenty...

October 23, (THEWILL) - Four persons, wanted in connection with over 16,000 kilograms of illicit drugs intercepted in Lagos, Abuja and the Netherlands, have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). A statement on...

October 16, (THEWILL) - Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a pregnant woman, a nursing mother and 24 other suspects with 9,437.6 kilograms of cannabis and 138,053 tablets of pharmaceutical opioids among other...

October 09, (THEWILL) - Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have foiled attempts by drug cartels to smuggle into the country over 2,465,000 tablets of tramadol 225mg and 250mg, weighing 2,356kgs, with an estimated street value...