The defendant, according to the charge marked FHC/L/60c/2021, is being tried on one-count of dealing on 179g of cocaine .
Browsing: Cocaine
Around 200 officers raided 14 properties in the early morning hours, a statement from the police said.
NDLEA Commander in the state, Nse Inam, made the disclosure while addressing newsmen on its activities in Owerri on Tuesday.
In a statement, Jonah Achema, NDLEA spokesman said that the new methods were uncovered in two separate operations at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Special Area Command, Abuja.
The NDLEA Commander in Kano State, Dr Ibrahim Abdul, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Tuesday.
The police (Drug Enforcement Division) said on Facebook that it found 1,028 bags of cocaine aboard the crashed plane and two foreigners have been detained.
It was gathered that at least six members of the syndicate had been arrested and presently being quizzed by operatives
He, however, pleaded not guilty.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it has apprehended a 33-year-old Kenyan lady with 6.5 kilogrammes of cocaine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Retired Col. Mohammad Abdallah, the Chairman of NDLEA, who supervised the exercise, said that the quantum of drugs being destroyed clearly called for state of emergency over drug situation in the country.
The NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Colonel Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (retd), while commenting on the arrest of Oluwayemisi Modinat, said that the Agency is working to prevent those hiding under the cover of pilgrimage in trafficking narcotics.
The arrest was made at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja when a passenger, Nwafor Samson Tochukwu, tested positive for narcotic ingestion during the outward screening of an Ethiopian Airline flight
The Public Relations Officer of the command, Uche Ejesieme, disclosed this in a document made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos
Officials discovered that the brassiere of the suspect was laden with narcotics at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos during the inward screening of passengers on a South African Airways flight
“The suspects were found to have ingested and stuffed wraps of cocaine on their bodies and luggage during screening of passengers on an Emirates flight from Dubai
It said Reynolds was stopped at random during luggage-screening processes on Friday by a Transportation Security Administration officer at the airport
The Commander of the Borno State Command, Ona Ogilegwu, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri on Sunday that one the suspects, a 48-year-old man, was arrested on February 27 in the camp
“Until my arrest, I never knew that the cocaine I ingested would have led to my death in Saudi Arabia. I thank God for keeping me alive.”
Detectives found that Wright, who owned two Cessna light aircraft, had flown to Breighton seven times in the previous three months from a private airfield near Kassel in central Germany
A drug suspect has told operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency that he sold his piece of land…