Drug trafficking

A Ghanaian and two Nigerians have been arrested at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu respectively for trafficking a total of 9.9 kilograms of cocaine and methamphetamine. Director,…

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an Italy-bound female passenger and a 38-year-old pregnant woman for drug trafficking. Director, Media & Advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this…

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a suspected drug trafficker who allegedly attempted to export 69.65kg of cocaine, heroin, and cannabis to the UK. Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, in a…

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives recovered 548,000 tablets of tramadol during the arrest of one Okeke Chijioke, an alleged drug kingpin in Anambra state. Femi Babafemi, spokesman of the NDLEA,…

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Nigerian woman based in Brazil, Mrs. Anita Ugochinyere Ogbonna, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja, with 100 pellets of cocaine concealed in her…

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘B’, says it has handed over two suspects arrested in Kaduna in possession of a large supply of cannabis to National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). This is contained in a…

A 23-year-old Nigerian man has been sentenced to death for smuggling nearly six kilos of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam. Theophilus Ugwu was charged with “illegal trafficking of narcotic substances” and sentenced on Tuesday,…

A Nigerian businessman, Onu Oluchukwu was on Friday arrested by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, with 1.527 kilograms of cocaine. Onu, a plumber material dealer, was…

A Nigerian man and an Indian woman have been arrested in Delhi with 10.5 kg of amphetamine, a narcotic drug worth Rs 10 crore ($1.4m, N533m) in the international market. Railway Police Force (RPF) announced this on Wednesday, December 9 …

Saudi authorities has discharged and acquitted a Nigerian citizen, Ibrahim Abubakar, of drug trafficking charges against him. Abubakar was arrested in December 2018 alongside Zainab Aliyu, a student of Maitama Sule University, Kano…

Malam Ibrahim Ibrahim in the middle A criminal Court in Makka, Saudi Arabia has discharged and acquitted a Nigerian man identified as Sheikh Ibrahim Ibrahim who was on death roll for 3 years after being accused of drug trafficking.…

56-year-old Nigerian man Augustine Anwuasoanya, alias Keeten Kojo, who was arraigned before Buganda Road Court chief magistrate, James Ereemye, pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotic drugs in Uganda. The suspect who was arraigned on…