The United States and Britain have restated their commitment to support the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in drug, money laundering and organised crime control. A statement by the agency’s Head, Public Affairs, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, on Tuesday, quoted the United States Consul-General, Mr. Joseph Stafford, as saying that the anti-narcotics agency had demonstrated […]
A joint team of the Customs and the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested one Elihu Essiet, suspected to be the brain behind the Importation of the 165 kilogram of cocaine seized earlier in the week. The hard drug was intercepted at the Tin-Can Port Island. The Customs Area Comptroller of the Tin-Can […]
Law Enforcement Agency said on Wednesday that it had seized about 32.9 tonnes of Indian hemp worth N3bn in the state, within the last eight months. The state Commandant of the agency, Mr. Walter Nicholas , who stated this while addressing journalists in his office in Akure, also said the command lost two of its […]
TO curtail the trafficking in hard drugs in the country, the Kaduna State National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested about 265 drug suspects last year while 3.4 tonnes of illicit hard drugs were seized from the suspects, the officials said yesterday. A breakdown of the seized substances shows that 3.385 tonnes of cannabis sativa […]
In the biggest bust of its kind in recent memory, Customs and Border Protection authorities at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport arrested a woman allegedly carrying 91 pellets of heroin inside her body. In all, 32-year-old Sherifat Lamidi had swallowed 2½ pounds of the drug, packed inside balloon-like packaging, the agency said. “As far as we […]
United States and Nigerian anti-narcotics agents have arrested three persons for alleged drug trafficking in separate operations in Lagos and Detriot, US. US federal authorities said a Nigerian woman, Sherifat Lamidi, was arrested in Detroit after she admitted swallowing 91 pellets of heroin on an international flight from Nigeria, the Associated Press reports. The Department […]
A man and his wife who were on their way to United States were arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, as suspects with 160 wraps of illicit drug, heroin by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Owolabi Ganiyu Amoo, also known as Johnson Bamiduro , 60, a printer, was arrested with his […]
Four governorship aspirants and two senatorial hopefuls are presently in the battle of their lives to disentangle themselves from the black-list of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), without which, they may not be able to contest this year’s general election. A top NDLEA operative who confided in LEADERSHIP at the weekend in Lagos, […]
THE Italian government is collaborating with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in a move to check drug syndicates, money laundering and crime. The NDLEA said the plan would help to check drug syndicates seeking to operate in the country and within the sub-region. Dr. Pietro Grasso, Chief Prosecutor of the Italian Anti-Mafia Bureau, […]
A final year student of Anambra State University, Igbiaram, has been saved from a possible execution in Malayisa, following his arrest by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The suspect (names withheld) was intercepted during routine screening of passengers on Emirate flight to Malayisa, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport with over 68 […]
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