Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) have recorded main successes within the ongoing nationwide operations.
The company intercepted illicit medicine hid in on a regular basis gadgets and arrested a number of suspects.
It additionally destroyed massive hashish plantations throughout a number of states.
The director of Media and Advocacy NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, acknowledged that on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, NDLEA officers connected to the export division intercepted 12 parcels of cocaine hid within the false backside of meals flasks certain for the UK through a Virgin Atlantic flight.
The seizure, weighing 2.80kg, was made on Thursday, April 9, 2026.
“Two cargo brokers, Ama Obinna Ufeim,33 and Ogabi Monday Akorede, 39, had been arrested in reference to the consignment. Additional investigation led to the arrest of the alleged sender, 52-year-old freight forwarder Agoro Tajudeen Moninuola,” he stated.
In a associated operation on the airport’s import division, operatives Wednesday, April 8, intercepted 2.90kg of “Loud,” a potent pressure of hashish, hid in snack packs arriving from america on a Delta Airways flight. Preliminary arrests of two clearing brokers had been adopted by the seize of the consignee, Saheed Adeshina Adegoke (29), a clothier, at his residence in Ogba, Lagos.
In Kaduna state, NDLEA operatives on patrol alongside the Kaduna–Zaria freeway intercepted a cement-laden trailer transporting 760 blocks and 33 jumbo baggage of skunk weighing 847kg. The motive force, Umar Garba Haruna, 33, was arrested.
A serious forest raid in Uwet group, Akamkpa native authorities space of Cross River state led to the destruction of 15,000kg of skunk cultivated on six hectares of farmland, with an extra 119kg recovered. A 53-year-old suspect, Alice Sunday Udoh, was arrested throughout the operation.
Equally, in Edo state, operatives raided a hashish farm in Saboro camp, Ovia North East LGA, destroying 2,281.43kg of the substance. Three suspects, Nweke Good, 27, Christopher Egbe, 62 and Monday Ayan, 45 had been arrested, with 38.5kg of hashish and seeds recovered from two of them.
In Delta state, two suspects, Sunday Odili, 49 and Ijenebe Joshua, 39, had been apprehended with 87.838kg of skunk and seeds on the Powerline space of Okwo.