LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a 20,000-litre fuel tanker fitted with a concealed compartment containing 2,145kg of cannabis, in a major breakthrough in its nationwide crackdown on illicit drug trafficking. The tanker, marked MKA 960 XC, was intercepted along the Akoko/Lokoja Expressway in Ondo State on Friday, 4…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted consignments of captagon, popularly known as the ‘Jihadi drug’, and millions of opioid pills worth more than N6.2 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday….
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A 41-YEAR-OLD Sao Paulo Brazil-based businessman, Abugu Oliver Ikechukwu, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for importing shirts and towels starched with 6.10 kilograms of liquid cocaine from the South American country into Nigeria. Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, made this…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Edo State Command, has re-arrested and arraigned before the Federal High Court in Benin a suspected drug trafficker, Ibrahim Yusuf Lawal, who allegedly jumped bail and was falsely declared dead by his wife in a bid to evade prosecution. The Edo State Commander of the NDLEA,…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has dismantled a methamphetamine laboratory in Ogun state. A statement on Wednesday by Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, said the operation led to the seizure of over 2.4 tonnes of methamphetamine and chemical materials valued at more than $362 million, equivalent to over…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have dismantled a drug trafficking syndicate that concealed cocaine in tins of palm kernel extract bound for the United Kingdom, arresting key suspects including the alleged kingpin in Lagos. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, disclosed in a statement on Sunday, informing that the operation…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted a large consignment of cocaine concealed in the heads of imported dry stock fish, popularly known as “Okporoko,” and arrested a suspected kingpin involved in trafficking the illicit substance to India. The agency said the seizure followed intelligence on the syndicate’s trans-border…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has issued a fresh warning to travelers, advising them on how to avoid being used as unwitting couriers by criminal drug syndicates. The caution, delivered by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a post on his official X handle on Sunday,…
