NDLEA

  • Trending news from Nigeria today 17 February 2025

    Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the release of Rev. Father Maurice Livinus, a Catholic Priest of the Port Harcourt Diocese, and two other kidnapped victims from their captors. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP. Grace Iringe-Koko, said the victims were set…

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  • Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 41-year-old Canadian lady, Adrienne Munju, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos. She was nabbed on Thursday, October 3 for importing large consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’, a strong strain of synthetic cannabis. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, announced the arrest in a…

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  • The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives have arrested a notorious drug dealer, 45-year-old Godwin Emuneyin, who is physically challenged and uses his wheelchair as cover to deal in illicit substances such as methamphetamine and cannabis in Afuze, headquarters of Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State. NDLEA said the suspect…

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  • The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has announced that its operatives have seized a multi-billion-naira illicit drugs warehouse at the International Trade Fair Complex, Lagos. The anti-narcotic agency disclosed that items recovered from the warehouse, allegedly owned by a wanted billionaire drug baron, include: 1.4 million pills of tramadol 225mg weighing 826kgs; 3.2 million…

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  • Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, has decried a report by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime in Nigeria, indicating that 14.4% of citizens aged between 15 and 64 abuse drugs, which he said is significantly higher than the global average of 5.6%. Obi also blamed leadership failure in the country,…

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  • In what appears to be the big­gest singular cocaine seizure in the history of Nigeria’s pre­mier anti-narcotic agency, op­eratives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have busted a major warehouse in a secluded estate in Ikorodu area of Lagos where 1.8 tons (1,855 kilogrammes) of the illicit drug worth more than $278, 250,000,…

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