The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has recovered 589 luggage of Canadian loud, a powerful pressure of hashish with a complete weight of 417.3kg price N1,042,500,000 in road worth, after its operatives raided an 80-room lodge in Victoria Island, Lagos, used as a canopy for distributing illicit substances.
This disclosure is contained in an announcement issued by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, April 27, 2025, the place he famous that the recoveries had been made hours after combing the rooms within the lodge.
Babafemi revealed that at the least three suspects: Eze Ayitu, Ofuokwu Samuel, and Emmanuel Ameh had been arrested in the middle of the operation on the five-storey lodge constructing between Friday, twenty fifth and Saturday, twenty sixth April 2025, whereas two different suspects: Noble Philip and his accomplice Kenneth, are at present at massive.
He mentioned that gadgets suspected to be proceeds of illicit drug commerce recovered from the premises housing The Hook Resort also referred to as Caesar Resort and Caesar Lounge positioned at 16 Waziri Ibrahim road, off Elsie Femi Pearse road, Victoria Island, Lagos, embrace: Toyota Prado Landcruiser Jeep (Lagos AKD 472 OZ) and Toyota Sienna Car (Lagos KJA 79 HJ).
Others are a Volkswagen Supply Van (Lagos AAA 525 JE), a Kia Ceranto Automotive (Lagos BDG 860 GQ), a Grand Caravan Dodge (Lagos APP 847 YF), 74 new TV units, 10 used TV units, and 13 fridges, amongst others.
Different interceptions
In one other main interdiction in Jigawa state with a observe up operation in Kano, NDLEA operatives performing on intelligence on Wednesday twenty third April seized consignments of opioids being moved from Kano to Niger Republic and Yobe state by Jigawa.
The psychoactive substances had been being moved in a Toyota Sienna automobile marked ABJ 182 NW at about 2:30 am on Wednesday alongside Kano- Ringim highway, Gumel city, when anti-narcotic officers on patrol intercepted them with two suspects: Abba Ibrahim, 28, and Shuaibu Umar, 29, arrested.Babafemi mentioned that 200,000 drugs of tramadol 250mg and 217,500 capsules of pregabalin had been recovered from the Sienna automobile.He mentioned a swift observe up operation in Kano led to the arrest of the provider, 41-year-old Jamilu Muhammad, at his residence positioned at Mil Tara, Layin Technical space of Kano whereas extra 1,584,000 drugs of tramadol 250mg stacked inside a Nissan 18-seater bus marked DAL 372 XA and a room in his home had been found and evacuated. This brings the whole variety of recovered opioids to 2,001,500 drugs.
The NDLEA spokesman famous that hardly per week after the officers of the Directorate of Operations and Normal Investigation (DOGI) uncovered 20 parcels of cocaine hid inside non secular books going to Saudi Arabia at a logistics firm in Lagos, the operatives have once more intercepted one other cargo of 46 wraps of cocaine weighing 547grams hidden in physique cream going to the Center East nation.
The seizure was made on Wednesday, twenty third April, at a courier agency in Lagos. One other consignment intercepted identical day consists of: 1.8kg pentazocine injection and 60 grams bromazepam tablets heading to Canada.
Extra arrests in Lagos, Kano
On the Seme border space of Badagry, Lagos, three Ghanaian women had been on Sunday, twentieth April arrested on the Gbaji checkpoint by NDLEA operatives whereas making an attempt to smuggle a mixed 4.8 kilograms of Ghana Loud, a powerful pressure of hashish, into Nigeria. The suspects arrested embrace: Haziza Zubairu, 42; Samirat Mustapha, 43; and Jamila Salifu, 26.
In Kano, a 60-year-old grandma, Safiya Shamsu, was nabbed on Friday, twenty fifth April nabbed at Samegu space of Kumbotso LGA with 5.6kg skunk, a pressure of hashish, whereas one other suspect, Muntari Labaran, 35, was taken into custody following the seizure of 100 litres of codeine syrup from him at Yelwa space of Dala LGA.
He additionally famous {that a} complete of three,814.9kg of skunk was destroyed on two farms in Ugbodu group, Ovia North East LGA, Edo state, on Thursday, twenty fourth April, when NDLEA operatives raided the plantations the place three suspects: Samuel Samson, 26; Daniel Peter, 20; and Abel Edah, 31, had been arrested.
