LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a shipment of cocaine concealed in twenty sets of religious books bound for Saudi Arabia. According to the Director, Media and Advocacy at NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said the cocaine consignment consisted of twenty parcels with a total weight of 500 grams…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-COCAINE worth £100,000 was found stashed in a British Airways plane toilet by a service engineer at Gatwick. The haul was spotted behind a panel while the Boeing was in a hangar for routine checks. It was uncovered after the jet touched down from Orlando, Florida. The engineer called police and now…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 59-year-old businessman, Chijioke Nnanna Igbokwe, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, seven days after ingesting illicit substances in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was apprehended during the inward clearance of passengers on…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Spanish authorities said on Monday they had seized seven tons of cocaine stashed in sea freight containers buried underneath a farm, arresting three suspected smugglers. Police posted video of the seizure, showing officers digging up ground and retrieving dozens of packages containing the alleged drugs. The Civil Guard police said they launched the…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Moroccan police, in collaboration with Spanish security forces, have confiscated 1.488 tonnes (3,280lb) of cocaine in a joint operation. The illicit substance was concealed within banana boxes inside a shipping container on a vessel originating from South America en route to Turkey. The seizure occurred on Tuesday at the Tanger Med port…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a fake couple Mr Onyebuchi Ilonzeh and his partner in crime, who identified as Mrs Nonyelum Ilonzeh, purportedly going for medical treatment in India, for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322 kilograms with 100grams of the drug also concealed in…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A huge consignment of cocaine has been found floating off the eastern coast of the island of Sicily, Italian police said. According to a statement released on Monday by Italy’s Financial Police, Guardia di Finanza, authorities seized nearly 2 tons of the drugs, spotted floating in the Mediterranean during a routine surveillance…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A bus in the fleet of Chisco Transport Nigeria Limited has been intercepted in Kogi State with hard drugs. The discovery was made by operatives of the National Drug Enforcement Agency on Stop and Search on October 27. The bus was heading from Lagos to Abuja and was intercepted on the Okene-Abuja…