The arrest, by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), took place in the course of last week
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The operations, which covered January 18 to 24, 2026, were revealed in a statement issued by the agency on Sunday.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement he issued on Sunday.
The wanted drug kingpin is notorious for drug trafficking, evading arrest, and mobilising armed thugs against security agents.
Expanding rehabilitation infrastructure is therefore not a critique of what has been done, but a logical extension of it.
This, it said, was as Nigeria’s security, intelligence, military and emergency response agencies recorded strong national visibility driven by major operations, reforms and inter-agency collaboration.
The State NDLEA Commander, Mr Jude Ahamefule, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abakaliki that the arrests and seizures were made between October and December 2025.
The report listed some of the interdictions by the NDLEA across the country that covered January 4, 2026 to January 10, 2026.
The 37-year-old businessman was nabbed by the operatives of the anti-drug agency who were on patrol on January 9, 2026.
Notorious for involvement in illicit drug business, the grandfather was first arrested by the NDLEA on December 14, 2022.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, revealed this in a statement on Sunday.
The 31.5kg cocaine in hatch 3 of the ship, which originated from Marshall Islands, was seized on January 2, 2026.
The seizures were made by the NDLEA operatives at a courier company in Lagos on December 24 and 29, 2025.
The Customs Area Controller (CAC), Apapa Command, Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba, disclosed this on Friday.
The suspects were subsequently handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for further investigation and prosecution.
The operatives, according to available information, also recovered 638 kilograms of the same psychoactive in the forest.
This was in connection with a seized 56 parcels of Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 26kg at the Tincan seaport in Lagos.
Director of Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement he issued to newsmen on Sunday.
The upper chamber explained how the National Assembly completed the process of reviewing the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, 2004 in June 2025, but President Bola Ahmed Tinubu declined assent because a section of the amendment bill conflicted with Section 58(4) of the 1999 Constitution.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the announcement was made during the council’s Awards and Gala Night on Tuesday.