The agency first picked up a Brazilian returnee, Nworie Phillip Chikwendu who was arrested on Tuesday, May 3 during an inward clearance of passengers on Qatar Airways flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil enroute Doha to Lagos.
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No fewer than Two Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty Three (2,223) drug users were also counselled through brief interventions and rehabilitated in NDLEA facilities across the country in the first quarter of the year; figures that represent a fair balance between the agency’s drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.
Umar Adoro, the Command’s Commander, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday.
Buba Wakawa, State Commander of the Agency said this in an interview with NAN in Benin on Thursday.
The anti-drug czar in his new year message said the NDLEA and its workforce are moving into 2022 “with a resolution to rid the country of illicit substances and to continue our aggressive pursuit of drug cartels, barons and traffickers anywhere they may be within the country or even outside.”
While Yakubu Kotri, impersonating as a military personnel was arrested on Wednesday, 29th December driving a gulf car loaded with Cannabis Sativa weighing 208 kilograms on his way to Bama, Borno state, another suspect, Salisu Mohammed who adorned the uniform of another security agency to traffic Tramadol to Bama was also nabbed by narcotic officers on patrol on the route same day.
Biden said the Administration was formally establishing the US Council on Trans-national Organised Crime.
The figure represents a portion of the over 1,000 traffickers that were jailed between January and November for drug offences.
The Acting Commander of the agency in the state, Isaac Aloye, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Thursday.
The acting Commander of the agency in the state, Isaac Aloye, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Thursday.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia said the sweeping offensive against drug trafficking will be sustained, urging Nigerians in the Diaspora to always provide information that will help the government to curb the menace.
According to the NDLEA Commander at the Lagos airport, Ahmadu Garba: “Aniebue Peter Nnamma, 50, who sells clothes at Aswani Market, Lagos, inserted 11 wraps of cocaine weighing 460 grammes into his anus, while Sokpe Zubbye, 37, aka Nzube Chukwudi, a freight forwarder from Anambra State with a Ghanaian passport, ingested 955 grammes of cocaine