NDLEA REPORTS DOZENS OF ARRESTS, SEIZURES IN NATIONWIDE OPERATIONS

Operatives of the NDLEA have arrested one OMOREGIE NICE UYIOSA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, with seven thousand, seven hundred and ninety thousand pills of tramadol and Rohypnol. UYIOSA was on his way to Italy, through Istanbul, Turkey, when he was arrested on Wednesday July 16, 2025, during a joint operation involving the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. Also at the Lagos Airport, NDLEA equally arrested one CHIOBA ROBERT UCHENNA on Thursday, July 17, 2025, with seventeen parcels of skunk Cannabis, weighing 1.70kg concealed in packs of popular cereal, Golden Morn, going to Pakistan as part of a consolidated cargo. Similarly, one OBAYEMI OYETADE was nabbed during a raid at Sarah Sam Hotels, along Ogudu road in Kosofe area of Lagos, following credible intelligence and surveillance on drug distribution activities there. In faraway Kaduna State, NDLEA operatives arrested ONYEKA MADU, MONDAY NWADISHI and EMMANUEL MADU at Narayi High-Cost area of Chikun LGA on Saturday July 19, 2025, with 742.866 kilograms of skunk, and Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis. In Kano, LAWAN RABIU was nabbed with 36,000 pills of tramadol along Danbatta-Kazaure road, on Wednesday 16th July, while a total of 25,000 pills of tramadol and exol-5 were recovered from a suspect ALIYU ABUBAKAR, at Gombe roundabout on Friday 18th July, The duo of MOHAMMED ADAMU and FURAIRA Idris were arrested same day with 49 blocks of compressed skunk that weighed 29kg at Kwadom, Yemaltu Deba LGA, Gombe state. In Borno, NDLEA officers on patrol along Baga road, Maiduguri, on Saturday 19th July intercepted 74,360 pills of opioids in a Mercedes Benz C180 car marked GUB 409 AA and arrested AUDU MODU, 44, in connection with the seizure, while in Bayelsa state, a 63-year-old grandma AKUNA NELSON was on Thursday 17th July arrested at Osiri area of Yenagoa in connection with the seizure of 163 litres of skuchies. Four suspects: IKECHUKW ABUGU, 42; SUNDAY ANI, 18; CHUKWU CHRISTIAN, 46; and EMMANUEL OLISAKWE, 55, were on Thursday 17th July arrested by NDLEA operatives along Okene-Lokoja highway, Kogi state in connection with the seizure of 2kg methamphetamine recovered during a search of their vehicle coming from Onitsha, Anambra state to Minna, Niger state. In Abia state, NDLEA officers on Monday 14th July raided the base of a notorious drug dealer, NDUKA OBI, 39, at 4 Niger street, Ugwa road, Aba, where various quantities of tramadol, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and a total of N736,000 monetary exhibit were recovered from him. Similarly, a total of 45,000 pills of tramadol were seized from a suspect CHISOM OKPALAEKE, 30, by NDLEA operatives on patrol along Onitsha - Enugu expressway, Enugu state on Wednesday 16th July. Also, officers of the Taraba state command of the agency apprehended the duo of NGWOKWOKA THOMAS, 44, and MOHAMMED AUDU, 44 with 10,000 caps of tramadol and a gram of cannabis at Dan Anacha, Gassol LGA. NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, FEMI BABAFEMI, provided details of the operational breakthroughs by the various commands of the agency in the past one week in a statement to the media.