Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have recovered illicit drugs in nationwide operations in the past week.
Director of Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement he issued to newsmen on Sunday.
According to Babafemi, Abdullahi Adamu, 30, was nabbed along Okene/Lokoja Highway with 28.400kg skunk, a strain of cannabis and Colorado, a synthetic cannabis, on December 19, 2025.
In Oyo State, NDLEA operatives on the same day recovered 125,000 capsules of tramadol and 1,800 ampoules of pentazocine injection in a Toyota Hiace bus marked XD 592 AWL along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, while two suspects: Ogunlade Kazeem, 54, and Adeleke Ismail, 30, were arrested with 185.4 kilograms of skunk at Challenge Motor Park, Ibadan on December 17.
A total of 405kg skunk was seized when NDLEA operatives raided Owena/Ijesha forest in Osun State, where a suspect Charles James, 45, was nabbed on December 19, while another suspect, Jamilu Zakari, 42, was arrested with 14,960 pills of tramadol 225mg at tollgate, along Abuja-Kaduna Highway on the same day.
The consignment of opioids was concealed in two kolanut sacks (huhun goro) going from Abuja to Gusau, Zamfara State.
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Across all Commands and formations of the Agency nationwide, NDLEA officers continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places, and communities among others in the past week.
These include WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of secondary schools in Anambra at Women Development Centre, Awka; Youth Craft Village, Malumfashi, Katsina; and members of NURTW in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, among others.
