The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seized 49 cartons of tramadol and other illicit drugs in the last week.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made the seizures known in a statement he issued on Sunday.
According to Babafemi, at the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers State, NDLEA officers on February 20, 2025 intercepted 49 cartons containing 49,000 pills of tamol, a brand of tramadol 225mg, in a 40ft container during a joint examination.
The operatives examined the shipment with men of the Nigeria Customs Service and other security agencies.
In Nasarawa State, NDLEA operatives on February 22 arrested two suspects: Bello Adamu, 40, and Pius Azuka, 42, at Kokona/Keffi with 517kg of skunk, while two other suspects: Usman Ruwa, 43, and Yunusa Haruna, 45, were nabbed in a Toyota Corolla car conveying 62.7 kilograms of skunk along Sabon Asibiti Road Kontagora, Niger State on February 20.
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With the same vigour, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, workplaces, and communities among others in the past week.
These included WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Maku Grammar School, Tapa, Oyo State; Comprehensive Secondary School, Orogwe, Imo State; Jama’atu Islamiyya Secondary School, Ankpa, Kogi State; and Owerri-Aba Primary School, Ugwunagba, Imo State.
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