In another interception at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives on Friday, November 6,\u00a0 uncovered 750,000 tablets of Tapentadol 250mg, weighing 526 kilograms with a street value of N900 million, in a consignment from India declared as Paracetamol Tablets 500mg.\n<\/p>\n
\u201d The consignment, made up of eleven cartons packed in two wooden structures, arrived at the import shed of the airport on Tuesday, November 3, aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Ahmedabad, India.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
NDLEA operatives later placed the cargo under surveillance until a joint examination with officers of the Nigeria Customs Service and other sister agencies on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe opioid pills were found in ten of the eleven cartons, while only the last carton contained paracetamol tablets as cover.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The anti-narcotic agency said its operatives\u00a0 intercepted 32 parcels of Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 16.15 kilograms, concealed inside two wooden sofas in a consolidated cargo that arrived from Houston, Texas, United States aboard a Turkish Airlines flight, at the import shed of the airport\n<\/p>\n
\u201cA freight agent, Ibrahim Abdulwaheed Adewale, who came forward to clear the consignment, was taken into custody.\n<\/p>\n
In a follow-up operation on Friday,\u00a0 a 34-year-old caterer from Ibadan, Oyo State, Adeoye Sarafa Ojo, who also walked in to collect the package, was arrested.<\/p>\n
Adeoye claimed he was sent by a friend, Taiwo Anuoluwapo Olusegun.\n<\/p>\n
The agency also uncovered a syndicate importing chemicals used in the production of Colorado, a synthetic cannabis, from the United Kingdom,\u00a0 following the interception of nine parcels of illicit substances hidden in two cartons of snacks tagged \u201cMichael Tea Guy\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The \u201ctea\u201d had arrived in a consolidated cargo, aboard an Air Peace flight from the UK on Friday 23rd October.\n<\/p>\n
Two of the parcels contained 1.20 kilograms of cannabis, while forensic analysis of the other seven parcels confirmed them to be chemicals used in making synthetic cannabis.<\/p>\n
\u201cA 51-year-old freight agent, Afolabi Abiodun Wale, who came to clear the consignment, was arrested, while two more cartons for the same recipient later arrived from the UK aboard an Allied Air flight.\n<\/p>\n
A sting operation conducted between Monday 26th and Wednesday 28th October led to the arrest of Okwuite Benjamin Ojone, 51, when he took delivery of the four cartons.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cA search of the two additional cartons revealed three parcels concealed in two packs of detergent, weighing 3.30 kilograms, and eleven plastic bottles of mostly liquid substances weighing 16.25 kilograms, bringing the total seizure to 1.20kg of cannabis and 28.65kg of synthetic cannabis chemicals\u201d<\/p>\n
At courier companies in Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday intercepted 46 blocks of cannabis weighing 22.2 kilograms packed in two cartons going to the United Kingdom.\n<\/p>\n
The NDLEA said its operatives also intercepted 296 tablets of Swinol going to Australia from Lagos, as well as three shipments of tramadol going to the UK: 20 capsules from Benin City and 96 capsules from Sapele, Delta State, both concealed in vitamin C containers, and 600 tablets of Tramadol 225mg from Asaba hidden in female headwear.\n<\/p>\n
In Lagos, NDLEA operatives also arrested a 32-year-old man, Abubakar Ali, at Marine Beach area of Apapa, where a stash of drugs was recovered from a small store he built inside the sitting room of his apartment.<\/p>\n
\u201cItems recovered include 1.06kg of Tramadol 250mg; 1.27kg of Tramadol 225mg; 400g of pregabalin capsules; 355g of diazepam; 200ml of codeine and 6.07kg of cannabis\u201d\n<\/p>\n
In Ondo State, NDLEA operatives raided Odofin Road, Uso, where they recovered 148 bags of cannabis weighing 1,818 kilograms. Earlier the same day, officers raided a cannabis farm in Board Forest, where they destroyed one hectare of cannabis plantation, recovered 242 kilograms of the drug and arrested a 36-year-old suspect, Itoro Linus Akpan.\n<\/p>\n
The agency also arrested a 53-year-old man, Agbo Paul Peter,\u00a0 at Osin Forest, Osin Ekiti, on Thursday with 216 kilograms of cannabis and cannabis seeds.<\/p>\n
In Edo State, NDLEA operatives intercepted a Golf saloon car loaded with nineteen bags of cannabis weighing 201 kilograms along Auchi\u2013Ibillo road, Akoko Edo LGA, and arrested the driver, Abdulmumid Isah, 39, and a passenger, Danako Godwin, 25.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a related development, officers raided a notorious drug joint on Ihama Road, GRA, Benin City, where three suspects: Emmanuel Sunday, 25; Samuel Bala, 31; and Loveth Momodu, 20, were arrested with quantities of Colorado, Loud and cannabis.\n<\/p>\n
Read also:\u00a0Fight against Ponzi threats in financial investment zone begins as Alpha 10 arrives Port Harcourt<\/a>\n<\/p>\n In Taraba State, operatives on stop-and-search duty at the NDLEA checkpoint in Lankaviri, Yorro LGA, arrested three suspects with a total of 283 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing 226.255 kilograms within two days.<\/p>\n Another suspect, Ibrahim Abdullahi, 45, was arrested with 156 blocks weighing 149.275kg, while Kabiru Usman, 25, was nabbed the same day with 80 blocks weighing 40.07kg. On Friday, Babangida Babayo, 32, was arrested with 47 blocks weighing 36.91kg.\n<\/p>\n Also in\u00a0 Enugu State, a 57-year-old man, Celestine Uzochukwu Ejiakor, was arrested on Tuesday at a checkpoint in Eke Obinagu with 44 blocks of cannabis weighing 22.5 kilograms. In another interception at the Ugwuoba checkpoint, officers arrested Godwin Shaapera, 40, with 24,000 capsules of Tramadol weighing 13.4 kilograms and 697 grams of ketamine.\n<\/p>\n A suspect, Edugua Othuke, 30, was arrested by NDLEA operatives at Ozoro, Isoko North area of Delta state with 10.54kg skunk, 9.4kg cannabis seeds and 4.3grams of methamphetamine on Saturday 31st October 2026, while another suspect, Akpofure Tobore, 34, was nabbed with quantities of skunk, tramadol, rohypnol and laughing gas on Wednesday 4th November at Upper Agbarho, Ughelli area of the state.<\/p>\n Source: <\/p>\n \u2026 recovers multi-billion-naira opioids, others in raids across states The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has intercepted a lady who came to Nigeria with members of her… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Related News<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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