The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Kogi state command has revealed that 149 suspects have been arrested with a total of 2, 699kg of assorted hard drugs in the last six months in the State. The state commander of the agency , Mr Abdulkadir Abdullahi Fakai, disclosed this during a press conference on Tuesday in Lokoja to mark the Read More
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday warned shipping lines and agents against illicit drug importation into Nigeria. The agency accused some multinational shipping lines of aiding false declarations, and conniving with unscrupulous businessmen to ship illicit drugs into Nigeria. The NDLEA Special Area Commander, Apapa, Ameh Inalegwu who gave the warning during an anti-drug constructive engagement with Read More
Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), has warned drug traffickers to desist. He said once they are caught, their wealth, property will be confiscated by law. Speaking in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America (VOA) monitored by Blueprint in Kaduna on Saturday, Gen. Marwa said since the Read More
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has said “the recent National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s (NDLEA) proposal for drug integrity test on aspirants vying for various offices in the 2023 general election, is ill-conceived, a joke taken too far and mockery of our frail democracy. In a May Day and Ramadan message to the Nigerian workers and Muslim faithful by Read More
As the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intensifies the war against illicit drug trafficking and abuse across Nigeria, no less than 677 traffickers have been convicted and sentenced to various jail terms between January and March 2022, with a total of 3,359 arrests and 65,915.891 kilograms of assorted drugs seized within the same period. Director, Media and Advocacy of Read More
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Wednesday said a notorious queen of drug cartel supplying psychoactive substances to traffickers in Taraba state, Lami Mai Rigima, has been arrested, months after being on their wanted list. A statement by director of Media & Advocacy of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi said the 40-year-old queen of the drug world came under the anti-narcotic Read More
Recent discoveries by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has raised questions whether the agency was overwhelmed and in the position to win the long drawn battle against drug lords and their foot soldiers, KEHINDE OSASONA writes. A report by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has indicated that over 10.6 million Nigerians were currently abusing cannabis sativa, Read More
In recent times, some personnel of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have been complaining about lopsided promotion within the agency which they want the chairman, Gen Mohammed Marwa (rtd) to look into with a view to correcting it. MUHAMMAD TANKO reports. Tens and dozens working staff of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intensified cries and Read More
The Federal High Court on Monday sent Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari, and six others that are facing drug trafficking charges with him, to the Kuje Correctional Center. The court firstly declined to grant him and others their bail application. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that the the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had Read More
The General Overseer of Christ Living Hope Church, Rev. Ugochukwu Emmanuel Ekwem, in possession of 54 sticks of Cannabis allegedly wrapped around his body has been arrested by Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). According to NDLEA’s director media and advocacy Femi Babafemi, the Pastor who was heading to Nairobi, Kenya for a three-week crusade was arrested at Murtala Muhammed International Airport Read More
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has brought into the Federal High Court the suspended senior Police officer DCP Abba Kyari and six others involved in an alleged drug deal for arraignment on Monday. Kyari is dressed in blue Kaftan and is seated with other inside the courtroom waiting for the Judge to arrive. The NDLEA had filed eight Read More
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has granted an application to further detain the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, and six others, for 14 days. In the filed application, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), sought court permission to further detain in its custody, those according to the agency are currently the subject of Read More
Aggrieved staff of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have alleged that the special committee set up by NDLEA Executive Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.), led by Col. Yakubu Bako (retd.), has failed in its assignment of promoting staff to their respective levels since 2011. A letter of complaint addressed to Gen. Marwa by one of the Read More
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), Monday, revealed video evidence linking the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to drug cartel. The released video shows Kyari attempting to bribe one of its operatives in order to carry out a drugs heist in the country. Watch video bellow…
Barely a week after operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seized 14,080kg of codeine based syrup at the Apapa seaport, Lagos, the agency has again intercepted 40,250 kilogrammes of the schedule 2 controlled narcotic worth over N2 billion, imported in two 40ft containers from India. The drug bust comes on the heels of a similar seizure of Read More
In the last few weeks of 2021, investigations showed that some Nigerians took illicit drugs deal to another level, just as the agency responsible for checking the menace, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), equally took its fight against the act to another level with several arrests and seizures. ELEOJO IDACHABA in this piece takes a look at the Read More
Business man and night club owner, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana has been questioned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over suspicious payments into his account by three convicted drug dealers from Nigeria, Malaysia and India. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had last year also invited the businessman to answer questions about the sources Read More
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Tuesday, destroyed 5,000 litres of expired codeine cough syrup seized during various operations in Lagos. This came as Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, stressed the need for collaboration from both the private and public sectors in the war against illicit drugs in Lagos, in particular, and Nigeria in general. NAFDAC Director-General, Read More
The House of Representatives has urged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and the National Orientation Agency (NOA) to join forces and clamp down on the use and abuse of crystal meth, also known in the South east part of the country as Mkpuru Mmiri. This followed concerns over abusive use of the drug by youth, especially in the Read More
For years now, combating drug abuse appears to be one of the worst challenges of the federal and state governments, with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seemingly not winning the war against drug abuse. However, residents of the South-east appear to have found an unorthodox solution by publicly flogging sellers and users of Methamphetamine Hydrochloride, popularly called Mkpuru Read More
The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd), has raised the alarm on an emerging new wave of militancy in the Niger Delta fuelled by substance abuse among youth in the region. Dikio spoke when he paid a visit to the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig.-Gen. Muhammad Buba Marwa (rtd), in Read More
Ahead of the All Progressive Congress (APC) state congress scheduled for October 16, all contestants into executive offices are to be subjected to mandatory drug test. The state commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, revealed this in a statement made available to Blueprint, Monday in Abuja, that all contestants are to visit the state office of the National Drug Law Read More
The Kano state commander, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Alhaji Isah Likita Muhammad, has called on community leaders in all the 44 local government areas of the state on the need for rising to the challenge of stemming the tide of drug abuse among youth in their domains. Speaking while addressing leaders of Hausawa/Gidan Zoo Vigilante Group led by Read More
The Kogi state command, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has seized 56,223.824kg of cannabis sativa through the efforts of its patrol operation in the last one year. The command also decorated 18 officers who were promoted to new ranks.The state NDLEA commander, Alfred Adewumi, stated this Thursday at the launching of War Against Drug Abuse (WADA), and decoration of Read More
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier General Buba Marwa (rtd) has said the Agency has arrested over 8, 000 suspected drug traffickers and secured 1,800 convictions in the last 6 months across the nation. Marwa made the disclosure when he led his team to Badawa community in Nassarawa LGA Kano on awareness campaign as Read More
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