A 22-year-old supplier of illicit substances to bandits, Muhammad Mohammed, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
According to available information, the illicit drugs supplier to bandits was nabbed by the operatives of the NDLEA on April 13, 2025.
Mohammed was stopped by operatives on patrol along Bichi-Kano Road while heading to Katsina with 277 ampoules of pentazocine injection tied to his thigh and private part with cellotape.
Another suspect, Mohammed Abdulrahman Abdulaziz, 43, was nabbed the same day at Research Rimin Kebe area of Nasarawa, Kano State with 68 blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 30kg.
Not less than 557.2kg of skunk, 5.6kg of methamphetamine, and 29.8grams of heroin were recovered from a house along Major General Isaiah Allison Street, Opolo, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, where four suspects were arrested when NDLEA operatives raided the premises on April 16.
The four suspects arrested during the raid were: Sarimiye Suwa Kurtis, 46; Roland Prosper, 34; Sarimiye Tare Paul, 45; and Fidelis Ugbesla, 46.
While a total of 1,100 kilograms of skunk were recovered from a delivery van with the driver, Ismail Abdullahi, arrested in Surulere area of Lagos State on April 17, NDLEA operatives in Kaduna on April 18 raided the hideout of a suspect, Ike Ani, 30, in Zaria, where no fewer than 31,950 pills of tramadol 225mg and diazepam were recovered.
In Kebbi State, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bagudo Road on April 18 intercepted a vehicle loaded with bags of charcoal coming from Malabil, Benin Republic.
A search of the vehicle led to the recovery of 97kg skunk concealed in sacks of charcoal.
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Three suspects: Abubakar Ibrahim, 50; Mustapha Aliyu, 32; and Bashar Lawali, 28, were arrested in connection with the seizure.
A 48-year-old Okafor Marcel was nabbed with 11.5kg skunk at Abatete, Anambra State, while NDLEA operatives in Osogbo, Osun State on April 15 arrested Ajala Mercy, 27, with 43 litres of skushi, a mixture of black currant, cannabis, and opioids, recovered from her room at Dada Estate, Halleluyah area of the state capital.
Two cannabis farms in Egbeta forest, Ovia North East Local Government Area Edo State were raided by NDLEA operatives who destroyed 3,717.8625kg of the psychoactive plant on 1.487145 hectares and recovered 136.5kg of processed cannabis.
At the Tincan seaport in Lagos State, a suspect, Basorun Usman Kayode, 40, who has been at large for two years, was arrested by NDLEA officers in connection with the seizure of 107kg Loud imported from Canada in 2023, while another suspect, Dauda Yakubu, who distributes illicit drugs within the seaport community, was arrested by a team of operatives on April 14.
The War Against Drug Abuse social advocacy activities by NDLEA Commands equally continued across the country in the past week.
Some of them included WADA sensitisation lecture delivered to students and staff of St. Michael Anglican Primary School, Epe, Lagos State; Community Grammar School, Ipoti Ekiti, Ekiti State; College of Education, Minna, Niger State; traders at Igbona market, Osogbo, Osun State; traders at Marian Market, Calabar, Cross River State; and drivers and others at Peace Mass Transit Park, Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State.
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