The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two Pakistani businessmen at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos with eight kilogrammes of cocaine. NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi said that the drugs were concealed in a public address system in which the suspects were attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Lahole, Pakistan via Doha. He said that …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared wanted a Lagos socialite, Ademola Kazeem, also known as Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed, over offences bordering on exportation and trafficking of illicit drugs as well as money laundering. In a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Tuesday, NDLEA said that the alleged drug trafficker is the owner of Adekaz Hotels. …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered 15 parcels of cannabis and 600 grams of tramadol concealed in a sack of crayfish for export to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. According to a statement on Sunday by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, the attempt was thwarted by NDLEA operatives who seized the consignment, and …

Two weeks after it made perhaps the biggest singular cocaine seizure at Ikorodu, Lagos, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has made another huge discovery of Tramadol also in Lagos; this time Lekki area. In a statement on Monday, NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi said the pills recovered from the mansion were more than 13.45 million and worth N8.8 …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) may have made a breakthrough in the investigation of alleged drug dealings involving the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team, at the time it was led by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. The Agency announced on Monday that it has arrested Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu, the suspected billionaire drug baron behind …

A defence counsel in the charges of illicit cocaine dealing against suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari has said that his clients’ guilty plea was not based on ignorance. Chibuna Umeibe and Emeka Ezenwanne, who were charged along with Kyari and four other police officers, appeared with the other accused persons at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday …