A 64-year-old former Divisional Police Officer of Idanre Police Station, Ondo State, who was dismissed from service for drug offences, Mr Monday Chika, has been arrested with an accomplice, Emmanuel Eniola, 40, with 280 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing 168kg.

By Kingsley Omonobi & Davies Iheamnachor OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, weekend, intercepted about 1.5 million tablets and capsules of pharmaceutical opioids such as Tramadol, Exol-5 and Diazepam loaded in Onitsha, Anambra State and heading to Yauri, Kebbi State. The drugs were intercepted in Edo State just as another 425,000 Diazepam […]

By Henry Umoru – Abuja THE Senate has begun a holistic investigation into how the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) spent N200 million on ‘Security Votes’ without budgetary provision. The Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo South led Senate Committee on Public Accounts is relying on 2016 report of Auditor General for the Federation. In […]

By Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in the early hours of Wednesday 12th January arrested a skit maker, Sunday Joshua, popularly known on social media as De-General, following the raid of a notorious drug joint at Orchid Estate, Lekki area of Lagos state. A statement by Femi […]

Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has lost his first wife, Chief Mrs Zainab Marwa. A statement by the family on Saturday 8th January said Mrs Zainab Marwa died in the early hours of the day at the age of 66 after a brief illness. ALSO […]

The Head of Youth Desk of the Department of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Lagos, Anake  Juliana, has advised drivers to shun careless driving as negligence on the wheel has grave consequences.

 By Kingsley Omonobi Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have foiled the desperate bids by drug cartels to push out millions of illicit drugs across Lagos and other parts of the country for the Yuletide as they seized 8,381,600 capsules and tablets of Tramadol as well as 56,782 bottles of codeine among others […]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have raided two clandestine drug stores in Lagos where a pregnant woman Eze Joy Chioma was arrested with 1,442 kilograms of imported skunk while four men including a 62-year-old Basset Emmanuel were arrested with 182,000 tablets of Tramadol.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency secured convictions various jail terms for 475 persons between September and November 2021 following charges filed against them at Federal High Courts across the country.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 43-year-old, Onuoha Friday, with one million capsules of Tramadol on December 10 along Lagos-Benin expressway. The NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that operatives of the […]

THE  Senate yesterday rejected the report of its Committee on Drugs and Narcotics when it uncovered the document that illegally contains N4.5 billion meant for the construction of Police barracks in the 2022 budget for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

Operatives of the National Drug Law EnforcementvAgency (NDLEA) have arrested a Brazil-based drug dealer, Okafor Okwudili Moses in connection with over 2.55 kilograms of cocaine recovered from a toilet at the E-Arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.

Zainab Habib Kila, the young girl of Jigawa State extraction who spent months in a Saudi Arabia jail in 2019 after being framed for drug peddling, has been commissioned as an Assistant Superintendent of Narcotics ( ASN) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA).

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted fresh consignments of cocaine and heroin weighing 16.85 kilograms and worth more than N4.9 billion in street value. This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi. Babafemi stated that NDLEA operatives intercepted the consignments […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Edo Command on Thursday said it arrested 20 suspects in connection with illicit drug trafficking. Mr Buba Wakawa, State Commander of the agency disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin. Wakawa said the suspects who were arrested in October included 18 […]