By Femi Anamelechi His checked baggage contained 17 parcels of methamphetamine weighing 17.5 kg and three parcels of cocaine totaling 3.05 kg, all concealed within bedsheets. A fellow passenger on the Ethiopian Airlines flight, Azu Follygan Kpodar, was also detained after officers discovered 1.25 kg of liquid cocaine hidden in a plastic soap container marked…
By Femi Anamelechi. Hajiya Zainab Hussian the Mother -in-law of the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) is dead. Hajiya Hussain who is the mother of Hajiya Munira Marwa, wife of Gen. Marwa, died in the early hours of Saturday 21st June 2025 in…
By Femi Anamelechi Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) has commissioned a high-tech Vision Centre at its National Headquarters Annex in Abuja as part of efforts to promote and prioritise staff welfare as well as to boost their morale. The facility, a product of…
By Femi Anamelechi The spice and get rich by all means syndrome has landed 25-year-old Nigerian Lady Ifeoluwa Akinwunmi in trouble as she has been arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Wing of the Central Crime Branch in India for alleged drug trafficking. Akinwunmi, who reportedly works as a hairstylist and nail artist, claimed she had travelled…
By Femi Anamelechi National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has remained very resilient in the fight against illicit drugs as the Agency through credible intelligence and strategic collaborations has recorded another milestone. The eagle eyes of the operatives of NDLEA intercepted sixty-six (66) parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, packaged as green tea…
By Femi Anamelechi No fewer than six million pills of opioids namely: tamol 225mg, tapentadol 225mg and carisoprodol 225mg as well as 332,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup with a combined street value of Six Billion Five Hundred and Twenty-Four Million Naira (N6,524,000,000.00) have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency…
By Femi Anamelechi The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) has charged officers and men of the Agency to remain resolute and steadfast in the ongoing onslaught against illicit drug trafficking and dealers. Marwa gave the charge on Saturday 19th April 2025 while commissioning…
By Femi Anamelechi National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in their renewed determination to curb drug trafficking, made a massive burst of these criminals Nationwide, the Agency also arrested two brothers, John Abugu, 43, and Kenneth Abugu, 31, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, for attempting to smuggle 5kg of cocaine concealed…
By Femi Anamelechi The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) has promised to make the welfare of his officers, men and women of the Agency his priority to ensure that they are physically and mentally fit to carry out their responsibility of curbing the scourge…
By Femi Anamelechi Operatives of NDLEA barely three weeks after launching a manhunt for a fleeing automobile spare parts dealer, have arrested the criminal Levi Chidiebele Ubodoeze over a recent attempt to export two kilograms of cocaine concealed in vehicle propellers to Angola. Following the seizure of the cocaine consignment at a logistics company in…
