Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrest two consignments of illicit drugs meant for export to the United Kingdom and Cyprus.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, revealed this in a statement on Sunday.
In the statement, Babafemi said two suspects: Shuaibu Ahmed, 38, and Tanimu Abdullahi, 29, travelling in a commercial bus from Lagos to Kano with 99 blocks of cannabis weighing 37kg were intercepted by NDLEA officers along Kwali-Gwagwalada Expressway, Abuja on February, while one Michael Okefi was arrested at Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra State with 483 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup concealed in two 50-litre kegs.
A follow up operation led to the arrest of the actual owner, Osinachi Jasper.
At least 540 grams of cocaine concealed in canvas shoes heading to the UK were intercepted at a courier firm in Lagos State on February 23by NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation.
Equally, a consignment of tramadol 225mg hidden in ladies headgear going to the UK was also seized same day at the courier house, while another parcel containing ecstasy concealed in body cream container meant for Cyprus was also intercepted.
In Kano State, different quantities of opioids and other illicit drugs were recovered from at least 12 young men arrested in parts of Kano between February 19 and 23.
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Some of the suspects include: Yusuf Abdullahi,20; Usman Muh’d,18; Sadiq Jibrin, 20; Ibrahim Lawan, 25; Ukasha Usaini,19; Sahabi Lamini,15; Isiyaka Mohd, 28; Bashir Ayuba,36; Ahmad Idris,18; Abubakar Sani,29; Bashir Mohd, 21; and Udochukwu Ezekiel, 35.
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