Two suspects: China Michael and Igbo Ekene, were arrested on March 7, 2025 as part of the breakthroughs recorded by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on illicit drugs nationwide in the last one week.
The suspects were apprehended when their commercial truck was intercepted by NDLEA operatives at Shibiri area of Ojo, Lagos State.
A search of the vehicle revealed 248 compressed blocks of Ghanaian Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 128kg, which were concealed in the underbelly of the truck.
In another interdiction operation in Lagos State the same day, three suspects: Osinachi Nwachukwu; Tochukwu Okafor Christian and John Ugochukwu Mbakwe, were arrested at Mosalasi junction, Mushin with 301,600 pills of tramadol and other opioids.
In Kano State, 65-year-old Yahaya Haruna was nabbed with 19.2kg skunk along Gadar Tamburawa Road on March 6, while 60-year-old Musa Bello, aka Jajere, was arrested with 212 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Medile, Kumbotso Local Government Area.
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No fewer than 442,594 pills of tramadol and other opioids as well as 1,274 bottles of codeine syrup were recovered by NDLEA operatives who raided the house and warehouse of a 37-year-old suspect, Blessing Okoronkwo, at 19, Ubani Street, Aba, Abia State on March 4.
In Benue State, 50,000 pills of tramadol and exol-5 were recovered from two suspects: Nwaeze Onyeabor, 47, and Tombo Thomas, 23, on March 5 when their vehicle was intercepted by NDLEA operatives at Ugbema junction, Katsina Ala area of the state.
In Osun State, a suspect, Asimiyu Muibi, 50, was arrested on March 4 with 162kg skunk at Modakeke, Ife East LGA, while 95kg of the same substance was recovered from a Toyota Camry car marked: KSF 72 GW, during a raid in Ede the same day.
A suspect, Etim Esien Stephen, 55, was arrested when NDLEA officers on March 5 raided the Amahor community forest in Igueben area of Edo State, where 9,514.625kg skunk was destroyed on 3.805846 hectares of cannabis farmland.
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 Model High School, Amaechi, Enugu, Enugu State; Bengy Secondary School, Agege, Lagos State; Sunshine Secondary School, Nku Udo Eno, Akwa Ibom State; and Government Day Secondary School, Dong, Adamawa State.
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