Buba Wakawa, the Commander of the agency in the state, disclosed this in Benin on Thursday
Browsing: Indian hemp
The convict, a resident of Oto-Awori in Ijanikin, Lagos, had on November 7 pleaded guilty to a one count charge of trafficking 10.3kg of Cannabis, also known as Indian hemp.
Handing over the items to the NDLEA, the custom’s Controller, Nasir Ahmad, said the illicit substances, which were carefully concealed with wrapped polythene bags, were intercepted on November 10.
Shortly before the exercise, Imohimi told journalists at the Ojota dumpsite that the destruction of the hard drugs marked the beginning of the move by his command to rid the state of the activities of drug peddlers
The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Colonel Hameed Ali, disclosed this on Tuesday in Lagos
Eyewitness account reveals that the officers of the NDLEA, who were heavily armed, stormed Jenta Mangoro at about 6.30pm arresting mostly youths who deal in all forms of drugs, including Indian hemp and trample.
She lobbied for the drug, which has low levels of THC which is the active ingredient making people ‘high’, to be given to her daughter.
Ona Ogilegwu, the NDLEA Commander in Borno State, disclosed this to newsmen on the sideline of a sensitization workshop for members of the National Association of Patent Medicine Dealers on Saturday in Maiduguri
The Agency said it is working hard to eradicate illicit drugs “from our society and the arrest of Usani Ibiang is a timely warning for other drug dealers that their days are numbered”
He said the intercepted drugs included 96 bags of cannabis valued at N25,000 each and 67 compressed wraps valued at N7,000 each
She noted that the truck was later found to have been loaded with cannabis in Ondo State and disclosed that the item was worth over N1 million
The Nigeria Customs Service, Sokoto/Kebbi/Zamfara Area Command on Thursday announced the seizure of Indian hemp and other contrabands valued at…
Police prosecutors at Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on Friday found in possession of a robbery suspect, Olalekan Bayo, 60 wraps…
There was panic in some parts of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Saturday as operatives of the National Drug…
The suspects, Raji Kabir, 22, and Yusuf Bako, 19, were arrested by Officers of the Lagos State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in different areas of the metropolis
Ekeocha said that the tanker, with registration no. MKA 887 ZF, was meant for carrying Premium Motor Spirit products, but that the suspects used it to carry Indian hemp
Worried by the increasing discovery that farm plantations meant for food a cash crops are steadily being turned to cannabis farms otherwise known as Indian hemp, the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday revealed that 334 hectares of Indian hemp plantations have been destroyed.
The cops, who were released on February, 13, 2014, were alleged to have shot and killed a suspected Indian hemp smoker
The state Commander of the agency, Alhaji Misbahu Idris, told newsmen on Wednesday in Sokoto that the suspects, aged 34 and 32, were arrested on September 9 after a tip-off
He said: “Our government sees hemp as illegal because it’s a black man’s inheritance and not from white people