By Femi BABAFEMI, Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA Abuja/ ABUJA-AFTER months of intelligence gathering and painstaking surveillance, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have smashed two major cross-border drug trafficking syndicates with cocaine and opioids worth billions of naira recovered from them while six leaders of the ... Read More »
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NDLEA Takes Anti-drug Abuse Sensitization Campaign to Apapa College
admin 10 Nov 2024 10 Views
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ LAGOS-DETERMINED to get the children sensitised early enough against drug abuse, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Tincan Island Port Strategic Command weekend, took the sensitization program to Park Royal College, Apapa Lagos. The program which was laced with lecture on illicit ... Read More »
NDLEA Tincan Island Command educates NYSC members on dangers of illicit drug abuse
admin 03 Nov 2024 324 Views
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ LAGOS-THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, Tincan Island Command has continued its sensitisation programme with members of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC in Ajeromi-Ifelodun local government area, Lagos with the launch of War Against Drug Abuse WADA. The event which held at ... Read More »
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ LAGOS-THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA disclosed weekend, that it intercepted a total of 16.6billion Naira worth of hard drugs at the Lagos sea ports. It said also that US and Euro- bound drugs were intercepted in shoe Soles adding that it ... Read More »
NDLEA, Customs Collaborate In Fight Against Drug Trafficking, Smuggling at Tincan Port
admin 19 Oct 2024 201 Views
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ LAGOS– THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA and its sister agency, the Nigerian Customs Service NCS has agreed to jointly work togather with a view to fighting the menace of llicit Drug trafficking and smuggling activities at the Tin Can Island Port, ... Read More »
Ex-NDLEA Image Maker, Ofoyeju Deployed To Head Tin-can Island Port
admin 09 Oct 2024 276 Views
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ *Commander Ofoyeju… LAGOS-FORMER public relations officer in the dark days of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, Commander Mitchell Ofoyeju has been deployed to head the Tin-can Island Port, Lagos. Sources close to the Agency’s Abuja office said the appointment takes immediate ... Read More »
NDLEA miffed over Lagos Eduction Ministry’s attitude towards illicit drug abuse
admin 27 Jun 2024 141 Views
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ LAGOS-CHAIRMAN, Chief Executive Officer of the National dug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, Brig-General Buba Marwa (rtd) Wednesday in Lagos, expressed dissatisfactaion over the the attitude of the Lagos State Ministry of Education towards illicit drug demand reduction. The drug czar who was Special ... Read More »
NDLEA Intercepts 3 Trailer-load Hard Drugs, Arrests Grandpa, Grandma
admin 12 May 2024 226 Views
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ LAGOS-OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA say they intercepted three trailer load of hard drugs in Lagos. They also said a 75 year old and 70 year woman were arrested in Ekiti and Benue states respectively for Drug related offences. ... Read More »
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent/ LAGOS– THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA says it has arrested three drug suspects with 51.09kg of heroin even as it intercepted an Oman-bound drug consignment at Lagos airport. The anti-narcotic agency also informed that it recovered 25,202kg of cannabis in Ondo, Bayelsa ... Read More »
NDLEA arrests 50,901, convicts 9,034 drug suspects in 38 months
admin 15 Apr 2024 101 Views
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ LAGOS– NATIONAL Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA said it arrested no fewer than 50, 901 Drug suspects and successfully convicted 9,034 of the in the last three years four months since the anti-narcotic Agency came under the watch of Brig-Gen Buba Mar’wa (rtd).The ... Read More »