LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has dragged the Federal Government to court to seek release from the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, The PUNCH has learnt. Kyari, in his suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, is praying the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the NDLEA to grant him…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Wednesday, said that it has no reason to shield anyone who may be indicted in the course of the ongoing investigation of a 25kg cocaine deal involving a gang headed by DCP Abba Kyari. The agency in a statement by its Spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Police Force has released the names of four other personnel arrested alongside disgraced cop, DCP Abba Kyari over their involvement in a cocaine trafficking ring. It was earlier reported that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA declared Kyari wanted on Monday afternoon after he was caught attempting to bribe…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed damning details of how the suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari offered its operatives $61,400 cash and negotiated the release of 25kg seized cocaine. The agency, which declared the suspended Police chief wanted, said its…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A highly decorated police officer in Nigeria has been arrested following accusations he belongs to an international drugs cartel, police say. Abba Kyari, already suspended for allegedly helping self-avowed fraudster Hushpuppi to launder his money in the US, is now accused in a cocaine plot. Officials say Mr Kyari asked a colleague…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Friday said its men intercepted a bus conveying religious books which contained cocaine weighing 11.913 kilogrammes with a street value of N3.9 billion. In a statement by the spokesman of the command, Hussain Abdullahi, the command disclosed that officers and men…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Illicit drug suspected to be Cannabis indica (Colorado), imported through the Tin Can seaport, has been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), New Nigerian Newspapers has learnt. The substance, made of 94 parcels, was said to have weighed 43. 4kg. The agency, while confirming the report in…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 62.3 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa at the Lagos Airport that was about being transported to United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). Also, an attempt to smuggle illicit drugs into the country through the Lagos seaport was foiled. These were among the…