Thirty-eight-year-old Darlugar Ufondu Steven, an assistant coach in an amateur football club in South Africa, has been arrested for drug trafficking.
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A 50-year-old suspected drug trafficker, Mr. Nana Njamen Theophile has been arrested in possession of cocaine which street’s value is put at N150 million.
A 27-year-old suspected drug trafficker, Nwofia Nnamdi Kenneth has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for attempting to smuggle 4.965kg of substances that tested positive for methamphetamine to India. The arrest was made at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos during the outward screening of Ethiopian Airline passengers to New Delhi, India.
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.
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The NDLEA boss who made the disclosure in Lagos at the weekend, said: “Suspected drug traffickers, including persons who test positive for the ebola virus will not go unpunished. All commands of the Agency have been directed to carry out compulsory pre-detention screening to prevent the deadly ebola epidemic
This is contained in a statement signed by the agency’s spokesman, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos
Njoku said some of the factors, which normally led to unlawful assault by security agents on people, are mostly caused by illicit drugs taken by the officers on duty
Madueke added that it was pertinent to know that in the year 2013 ,104.267 kilograms of controlled drugs were intercepted
The NDLEA in a statement by its Head, Public Affairs, Ofoyeju Mitchell, said that the seizure was made at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos
The NDLEA made a total seizure of 1.1 tones of hard drugs and psychotropic substances in the state
The theme for the celebration is: “A Message of Hope: Drug Use Disorders Are Preventable and Treatable
“The seizures were made in a consignment of female shoes from Brazil on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight and a shipment of voltage regulators meant for export to Gabon on a DHL cargo flight
This was contained in a statement signed by NDLEA’s Head of Public Affairs, Mitchell Ofoyeju, and made available to newsmen on Friday in Lagos
This was contained in a statement by the Head of Public Affairs of the NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, and made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos
Tambuwal made the pledge at a public hearing on a bill to establish the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Agency, organised by the House Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes
Alhaji Idris Bello, the Commander of NDLEA in the state, said at the 2013 end-of-year news briefing in Lokoja that Olusola was re-arrested at Anyigba on December 19 with 2.9 kilogrammes of Indian Hemp
The Commandant of the Agency, Malam Mohammed Jibrin, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna that the farms were located in Zange village, Gwantu of Sanga Local Government Area; Gidan Bello, Kagarko Local Government Area; Fori village, Kagoma in Jema’a Local Government Area; and Gadan Malam and Amaru, both in Zaria
Umar said: “The suspect during routine search was found with three wraps of substance weighing 190 grammes that tested positive for cocaine in his pockets
The commander stated that cases of 25 of the suspects were pending while 176 others were counselled, rehabilitated and later integrated with their respective families across the state