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Drug suspect dies of cocaine ingestion at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Friday, July 10th, 2015

Obiefuna advertisement TOP HEADLINES A THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Lagos-based trader and suspected drug peddler has died of cocaine ingestion at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja. The suspect, identified as Ndulue Emmanuel Obiefuna, collapsed at the Departure Hall and was taken to a nearby hospital. Ndulue was an intending […]

Extradition: NDLEA fails to bring Kashamu to court

Posted by admin Latest Politics, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Tuesday, May 26th, 2015

Mr. Buruji Kashamu The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Monday failed to bring the senator-elect for Ogun-East senatorial district, Mr. Buruji Kashamu, before a Federal High Court, Lagos, for extradition hearing despite a declaration by the agency that he would be produced in court. The agency, whose operatives had laid siege to Kashamu’s […]

NDLEA razes N120m drugs in Katsina

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency), State News Thursday, December 4th, 2014

The Katsina State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has set ablaze 6,795.2 kilogrammes of drugs, including Cannabis sativa (popularly called hemp) among other narcotic substances. The NDLEA Public Relations Officer, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, said hemp constituted 5,879kg of the burnt drugs which were valued at N120m, a statement said on Thursday. The […]

44 years after, Igbo demand N2.6trn reparation over civil war

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency), South-East Tuesday, July 15th, 2014

BY HENRY UMORU, LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU & JOSEPH ERUNKE FORTY- Four years after, the Civil War , Igbo delegates asked for N2. 6 trillion as reparation and compensation for the devastation Igbo land experienced during the 1967 to 1970 war. In an amendment to the proposed National Intervention Fund, the South East delegates said the former […]

Don’t politicise census, Aliyu tells Nigerians

Posted by admin Latest Politics, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

The Chairman, Northern Governors Forum and Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, has warned Nigerians against politicisation of the census saying that previous head counts failed to achieve the desired results because of the way it was handled. Nigerians preferred to see census as a means of getting higher returns from the national purse instead of […]

Terrorism: Delegates ask FG to shut borders

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

Delegates on Tuesday advised the Federal Government to shut Nigeria’s borders with Cameroon, Niger and Chad to curtail the influx of insurgents. The advice followed the early Monday morning bomb blast at Nyanya Terminus on the outskirts of the Federal Capital Territory. Official figure said no fewer than 72 people died while 124 sustained various degree of […]

Drug trafficking: Absence of interpreter stalls trial of Portuguese

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Monday, February 17th, 2014

The absence of an interpreter on Monday again stalled the trial before a Federal High Court, Lagos of a Portuguese woman, Roseangela Goncalves, charged with drug trafficking. Gonclaves, 36, is charged along with Christopher Olua, 38, on a two-count charge of dealing on a restricted narcotic, cocaine. They had both pleaded not guilty to the charge but the Judge, […]

NDLEA arrests man with 107 ATM cards

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Saturday, February 1st, 2014

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said on Saturday it arrested a man with 107 automated teller machine cards in his possession at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos. A statement by NDLEA said its officers discovered the ATM cards in the man’s luggage during the outward screening of passengers travelling to Istanbul, Turkey aboard […]

Wife arrested while exporting heroin to husband

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Friday, January 3rd, 2014

by Comfort Oseghale Nsofor advertisement A 34-year-old housewife, Ngozi Nsofor, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for attempting to export 195 grammes of heroin to her husband in Liberia. The drug was allegedly concealed inside a bag of female artificial hair and was […]

Suspects smuggle cocaine in underwear

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

Four suspects have been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for the unlawful importation of 2.375 kilogramme wraps of substances that tested positive for cocaine. A total of 144 wraps of cocaine were found concealed inside the inner wear of two of the suspects at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos […]