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…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman has been arrested after being caught with 600 grams of heroine at Alghero Airport, Sardinia, Italy. The unnamed lady was said to be at the airport’s arrival lounge having just disembarked from a flight from Bologna, Northern Italy, when she was spotted by officers of the Guardia di Finanza,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Singapore’s High Court on Monday suspended the scheduled execution of a Malaysian man believed to be mentally disabled until an appeal is heard, amid pleas from the international community and rights groups. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, 33, was due to be executed by hanging on Wednesday for trying to smuggle less than 43…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An 80-year-old woman, Mrs. Mary Adebayo, her 19-year-old granddaughter, Funmilola Adebayo and two other ladies have been arrested in Akure, the Ondo state capital by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEAS, for selling assorted illicit drugs like cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, tramadol, swinol and skuchies. A press statement signed by…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JUE 27TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Nigeria Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Bayelsa Command, has arrested 105 persons while 27.35 kg of illicit drugs were seized in the area between January and June. Bayelsa NDLEA Commander, Mr Abdullahi Abdul, gave the figure at a news briefing to commemorate the International Day Against Drug…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Class A drugs with a potential street value of £27m have been found hidden inside a lorry carrying vegetables at a port in the east of England. About 400kg of cocaine and heroin were discovered hidden among a load of onions and tomatoes at Killingholme port in north Lincolnshire in an operation…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In one of the biggest hauls of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in recent times, a Nigerian man was nabbed with 1.2 kg heroin at Vadodara railway station on Wednesday in India. According to TimesofIndia, Madubueze Nonso Charles, 38, was arrested around 3.30 am. “When we searched his luggage, we found three concealed…