Skip to main content

N194 Billion Naira Worth Of Hard Drug Discovered As NDLEA Bust Cocaine Warehouse In Lagos



President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the  chairman of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig Gen Buba Marwa (retd) after the agency  seized hard drugs worth N194 billion naira.

The agency reported that they seized about 1,855kilograms of cocaine and arrested the drug barons, after they raided a warehouse  in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria.

The cocaine seized from the warehouse is worth more than Two Hundred and Seventy-Eight Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($278, 250,000) equivalent to about One Hundred and Ninety Four Billion, Seven Hundred and Seventy-Five Million (N194, 775,000,000) Naira in street value.

President Muhammadu Buhari who is presently in New York for the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 77), said the NDLEA boss should keep up the good work.

Four drug barons including a Jamaican and the warehouse manager have been arrested.
The kingpins of the cocaine cartel in custody include Messrs Soji Jibril, 69, an indigene of Ibadan, Oyo state; Emmanuel Chukwu, 65, who hails from Ekwulobia, Anambra state; Wasiu Akinade, 53, from Ibadan, Oyo state; Sunday Oguntelure, 53, from Okitipupa, Ondo state and Kelvin Smith, 42, a native of Kingston, Jamaica.

Comments

  1. Empressdara20 September 2022 at 04:46

    Bravo!!!!
    What an incredible job.
    Kudos to the agency Officers and Men for being proactive and also ahead of the barons in tactics and antics. May the Lord Almighty continue to protect them in this wonderful assignment of eliminating illicit substances in and out of the country. Drug abuse and trafficking is a menace that must be fought wholeheartedly by all the stakeholders.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous20 September 2022 at 08:43

    If you check very well, some key people in the society and the government are involved hence this large volume.
    Kudos to NDLEA officials.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Type your comments here

Popular posts from this blog

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wins Big In Governor Nyesom Wike's Local Government Area

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has won the Obio-Akpor, the Local Government Area of Governor Nyesom Wike in Rivers State by a landslide. Tinubu polled 80,239 votes to defeat the Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who came a distant second with 3,829 and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who got 368 votes.
Post a Comment
Read more

Japanese Billionaire-who spent $80m on space travel urges World leaders to visit space

Japanese billionaire who spent $80 million flying to space said world leaders should do the same because it gives you a new perspective on Earth. (The picture above, shows Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa in the International Space Station (ISS) on December 9, 2021.Yusaku Maezawa/Instagram/Reuters). Yusaku Maezawa spent some $80 million on a 12-day trip to the International Space Station. Despite criticism, he has enthusiastically recommended the experience since returning. On Wednesday he said the trip gave him a sense of perspective that world leaders could benefit from. A Japanese billionaire who recently spent around $80 million on a pleasure trip to the International Space Station (ISS) said that he would urge others to do the same, especially people in charge of things on Earth. Yusaku Maezawa, 46, returned on Monday from a 12 day-long commercial trip to the ISS. "I would like as many people as possible — and as many people with power and influence — to visit space,"...
2 comments
Read more

Happy Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day.  It originated as a holiday to give gifts to the poor.  Today, Boxing Day is celebrated or known as a shopping holiday. Don't we all just love shopping...hahaha! Let's shop wisely, bearing in mind that, there are other expenses to take care of after the Yuletide season. Most importantly, let's embrace the true concept of Boxing Day, which is giving to the less privileged. So, step out and bless someone this day. Remember charity begins at home! Picture credit: Christmas walls, National today.
2 comments
Read more