Last Saturday, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) agents successfully stopped a commercial vehicle carrying 942 explosives in a sack from Nasarawa on their way to Zamfara State during a routine patrol along the Kaduna-Zaria expressway.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokeswoman, reportedly confirmed the development in a statement.
In relation to this event, the agency disclosed that a 30-year-old suspect was taken into custody.
The suspect, Nura Sani Muhammad (also known as Nura Hariji), was taken into custody after the NDLEA reported that they had found the explosives during the May 3rd patrol.
The agency also said that illegal substances valued at over N3.4 billion had been seized in Port Harcourt and Lagos.
This included the discovery of 1,500,000 pills of a controlled opioid in the Alaba-Rago neighborhood of Ojo, Lagos, and 2 million pills of tafrodol 225mg and 163,000 bottles of codeine syrup on April 29 during a joint inspection of a watch-listed container by NDLEA officers and other security personnel at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex in Onne, Rivers State.
Three million five hundred thousand (3,500,000) opioid pills and one hundred and sixty-three thousand (163,000) bottles of codeine syrup, totaling more than three billion, four hundred and twenty-eight million naira (N3,428,000,000.00) in street value, were seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, and Lagos state, according to the statement.
“The majority of the seizures, which included 163,000 bottles of codeine syrup and two million 225 mg tafrodol pills, were made on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, during a joint inspection of a watch-listed container by NDLEA officers, Customs Service personnel, and other security agencies at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers state.
The source of the consignment was identified as Q104B Road 25, Victoria Garden City, Lekki, which is the home of an Obinna Kenneth who is currently at large. On Tuesday, April 29, 1,500,000 pills of a controlled opioid were found in Lagos, from a suspect named Olarenwaju Wahab in the Alaba-Rago neighborhood of Ojo.
According to the announcement, 42 packages of Canadian Loud, a very strong cannabis strain concealed in food tins, were confiscated by officers at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja during a British Airways flight from Canada.
According to the announcement, between April 30 and May 3, three people were arrested, including the beneficiary, Monsurat Ewawunmi Lawson.
Babafemi further said that on May 2, a businessman named Bobby Morris Osa was arrested at the Lagos airport for trying to board a trip to Italy with over 8,000 tramadol pills.
Similarly, on April 28, 104 grams of tramadol and skunk concealed in bottles of body cream were seized by NDLEA officials, who stopped an effort to export drugs to Iraq via a courier service, according to the statement.
Other accomplishments included the 52-year-old Ovidaq International Ltd. managing director’s arrest in relation to the July 2024 import of over 2.6 million tramadol pills through the Apapa port.
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Fifty-one packages of Canadian Loud were also found during a raid of his Lekki apartment.
“After a ten-month investigation, NDLEA agents arrested Dominic Chiegozie Obijiaku, 52, a wanted drug kingpin and the Managing Director of Ovidaq International Ltd., on Saturday, April 26. He was involved in the importation of 2,616,060 tramadol 225mg pills that the agency intercepted at Apapa seaport in Lagos on July 28, 2024. According to the statement, 51 wraps of Canadian Loud weighing 34 grams were seized during a follow-up raid at his Lekki home.
The agency reported making significant arrests in the states of Kano, Edo, Anambra, and Niger and seized hundreds of thousands of opioid pills, codeine syrup bottles, pentazocine injectable ampoules, and cannabis from a number of suspects.
