A female graduate and a female student were among those arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for dealing in illicit drugs.
The arrest of the two ladies: in Kwara State was confirmed by the Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi.
In a statement on Sunday, Babafemi said a fresh graduate, Khadijat Abdulraheem, 24, and a 20-year-old student of the University of Ilorin, Ayomide Morakinyo, were arrested on December 29, 2024 at Tanke-University of Ilorin Road, Oke Odo, Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
He said the arrest of Abdulraheem and Morakinyo was based on credible intelligence that they were producing and selling drug-laced cupcakes to students in the community.
When their apartment was searched, 42 pieces of drugged cakes were recovered from them.
An ex-convict, Sodade Sunday Eniola, who was arrested by operatives of the Tincan Command of the NDLEA in Lagos State in June 2024, for drug trafficking, prosecuted and sentenced to four years in prison, has been arrested again by officers of the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency for passport racketeering.
When he was convicted by a Federal High Court in Lagos on June 14, 2024, the trial judge gave him an option of paying N750,000 fine, which he paid and was let go.
However, in a series of operations in December 2024, NDLEA operatives at the export shed of the Lagos airport intercepted no fewer than 52 passports of different countries from shipments going to Canada, Russia, and other countries.
The passports were concealed in shoe soles and food items.
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Further investigations led to the arrest of four members of three syndicates involved in the racket.
The arrested suspects were Sodade Sunday Eniola, Ayinde Saheed Awwal, Salaudeen Afeez Ayode, and Sheriff Adebayo Bamigbade.
Both the exhibits and the suspects were on December 30, 2024 handed over to the Zonal Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service in Lagos State for further investigation and possible prosecution.
Not less than 316,800 bottles of codeine-based syrup were recovered from two containers by NDLEA officers at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers State during a joint examination of the shipments with men of Nigeria Customs Service and other security agencies on December 31, 2024.
The seizure followed credible intelligence processed by the Port Harcourt Port Command of the Agency.
In Kano State, NDLEA operatives on December 31, 2024 raided Mafarki, Dan Dishe area of Dala LG, where they recovered 149,090 pills of tramadol and exol-5 from a local dealer, 45-year-old Ismail Muhammad.
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 lectures to traders at Ido-Osi Central Market, Ido Ekiti, Ekiti State; and Muslim faithful during their Juma’at prayer at Birnin Kudu Central Mosque, Jigawa State.
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