Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of cocaine concealed within religious books destined for Saudi Arabia and arrested a 22-year-old supplier of illicit drugs to bandits in a week-long series of operations across Nigeria.
According to a press release issued on Sunday, 20th April 2025, by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the 500-gram cocaine parcel was discovered during a routine check of export cargoes by officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) at a Lagos courier company on Tuesday, 15th April. The drug was concealed in 20 sets of religious books.
In another major arrest, NDLEA operatives in Kano apprehended 22-year-old Muhammad Mohammed along the Bichi–Kano road on Sunday, 13th April. He was en route to Katsina with 277 ampoules of pentazocine injection “tied to his thigh and private part with Sellotape,” the agency stated.
On the same day in Kano, another suspect, Mohammed Abdulrahman Abdulaziz, 43, was caught with 68 blocks of skunk weighing 30kg.
Additional seizures included five parcels of “Loud,” a potent cannabis strain weighing 2.8kg from the United States, found in a separate courier package in Lagos.
In Bayelsa, a combined 557.2kg of skunk, 5.6kg of methamphetamine and 29.8g of heroin were recovered from a residence along Major General Isaiah Allison Street, Opolo, Yenagoa, where four suspects, namely Sarimiye Suwa Kurtis, 46; Roland Prosper, 34; Sarimiye Tare Paul, 45; and Fidelis Ugbesla, 46 were arrested.
Meanwhile, NDLEA officers in Lagos intercepted a delivery van containing 1,100kg of skunk, while Kaduna operatives recovered 31,950 pills of tramadol and diazepam during a raid in Zaria.
Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), commended the agency’s officers for their efforts in “ensuring a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.”
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