National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) agents have seize tons of different illegal drugs, detain nine kingpins, and launch a major nationwide campaign to combat drug trafficking.
Several intelligence-led operations that targeted drug networks across the nation led to the arrests.
According to a statement released on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, a spokesman for the organization, stated in a statement that “NDLEA officers on Tuesday, November 2025 detained two members of a drug trafficking organization in Onitsha, Anambra state, after they showed up to take delivery of 5.40 kilograms of methamphetamine, 10.70 kilograms of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis,  , and 16 grams of cocaine.
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Ebulue Lotanwa Uzochukwu, a 30-year-old electrical appliances dealer, was the first to arrive at a logistics company in Onitsha for the collection of the consignments, he said, and shortly thereafter, Christopher Michael Ndibuisi, a returnee from South Africa, showed up and was also detained.
According to credible information, the consignments arrived at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja-Lagos, on a Tag-Angola flight on November 13th, 2025, with the airway bill number 118-12882973 and were immediately seized.
Following the arrests of the recipients, Uzochukwu and Ndibuisi, a follow-up sting operation was conducted in Onitsha, Anambra state.
“On the other day of a trip to the Lagos airport, NDLEA agents discovered a brake-servo car part that contained 48 pellets and a block of cocaine, all of which were being transported to Gabon.
“A follow-up at the ASMPDA market, Trade Fair Complex, Ojo, Lagos, led to the arrest of an auto parts dealer, Nwafor Tochukwu Boniface, who was the presenter of the consignment for export.”
On Monday, November 17th, NDLEA agents in Kogi state intercepted a trailer carrying 4,700 kilograms of the cannabis strain skunk.
The kingpin who owns the trailer and the illicit drug consignment, Marcus Danladi Dan Mangu, was detained on Friday, November 21 during a follow-up operation in Jos, Plateau state.
Onun Okoi Okpotum, 55, and his wife, Itam Okoi Okpotum, 52, were detained on November 19 at their warehouse in Ugep Yakur LGA in Cross River State, where 362 jumbo bags of skunk weighing 4, 706 kilograms were recovered.
On Saturday, November 22nd, two women from Edo state, Praise Nwogu, 19, and Ebong Emem Oghosa, 25, who work in the production and online sale of brownies laced with illegal drugs, were detained in Benin city.
While Ebong Emem Oghosa, who was nabbed with 76 grams of skunk, 1.5 grams of Colorado, and drug-laced brownies, Praise Nwogu was discovered with 12 plates and a cup of them when they were about to be arrested.
Shedrack Aminu, 35, was found with 59kg skunk after a raid on Ososo village, Akoko Edo LGA, on Tuesday, November 18.
On Wednesday, November 19, 2018, operations on Enugu/Onitsha road, Enugu, intercepted a suspect Chinoso Emmanuel Monday, 24, who had a 10.1 kg skunk, 105, 600 tramadol pills 250, 225, and 100 mg, as well as 700 pentazocine injection ampoules and 3000 rounds of live ammunition.
A 23-year-old suspect was detained on Friday, November 21 with 12, 548 pills of opioids concealed in paracetamol containers heading to a Boko Haram enclave in Minok area of Borno state, while a 13 155 bottles of codeine-based syrup were evacuated from a warehouse located in Dole-Kaina, Dandi LGA.
On Monday, November 17, Anthony Mercy, 40, and Sunday Augustine, 39, were detained by NDLEA agents on patrol along the Abaji-Abuja Expressway in the Federal Capital Territory, while Samson Dafe, 47, was detained on Tuesday, November 18th, in his Sharon vehicle marked ABJ 114 BV, bringing 85, 100 opioid pills, 5 456 bottles of codeine syrup, and 456 bottles of codeine syrup.
On Thursday, November 20, a suspect Sani Mohammed’s residence in Shiroro LGA was searched with 437 blocks of compressed skunk weighing 471.8 kilograms recovered.
A suspect Usman Ayoola Adegoke was detained in Lagos in connection with the seizure of 139 pouches of Canadian Loud, which were weighed 71 kg, while a suspect, a woman named Oluchi Celestine, was seized on Tuesday, November, in Lekki, with 2. 6 kg Colorado, packaged in branded containers and some of the items hidden in flight boarding cards.
On Monday, November 17th, NDLEA agents supported by some military personnel raided the infamous Peti illicit drug enclave of Lagos Island, where 385 kilograms of skunk, Loud, and Colorado were recovered and two suspects detained.
In a separate operation at a motor park in the Maza Maza area of Lagos, no less than 163 200 capsules of the drug 225 mg were recovered. Over the past week, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensibilization efforts to schools, churches, places of worship, and communities, among others. The statement read in part, “WADA sensitization lecture to students and staff of Baptist High School, Ilero, Oyo state, St. Michael Anglican Primary School, Afuye Epe, Lagos, Government Day Senior and Junior Secondary School, Kurami, Katsina, Women Day Secondary, Kontogora, Niger state, Government Day Secondary School, Takatuku, Sokoto, St. Paul’s College, Eke, Enugu, Iwoye
While lauding the MMIA, Lagos, Kogi, Edo, Cross River, Enugu, Kebbi, Niger, Borno, and FCT Commands for their respective successful operations, Brig., Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, They and their colleagues across the nation were ordered to carry on the Agency’s ongoing, balanced approach to drug control efforts by Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd).
Marwa cited the Agency’s decision to launch a relentless offensive against drug trafficking cartels in the country as justification for the organization’s current heavy crackdown on drug trafficking syndicates.
Source: Channels TV
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