The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has recovered 589 luggage of Canadian loud, a robust pressure of hashish with a complete weight of 417.3kg price N1,042,500,000 in avenue worth, after its operatives raided an 80-room resort in Victoria Island, Lagos, used as a canopy for distributing illicit substances.
This disclosure is contained in a press release issued by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, April 27, 2025, the place he famous that the recoveries have been made hours after combing the rooms within the resort.
Babafemi revealed that not less than three suspects: Eze Ayitu, Ofuokwu Samuel, and Emmanuel Ameh have been arrested in the middle of the operation on the five-storey resort constructing between Friday, twenty fifth and Saturday, twenty sixth April 2025, whereas two different suspects: Noble Philip and his accomplice Kenneth, are presently at giant.
He stated that objects suspected to be proceeds of illicit drug commerce recovered from the premises housing The Hook Resort also referred to as Caesar Resort and Caesar Lounge situated at 16 Waziri Ibrahim avenue, off Elsie Femi Pearse avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos, embrace: Toyota Prado Landcruiser Jeep (Lagos AKD 472 OZ) and Toyota Sienna Car (Lagos KJA 79 HJ).
Others are a Volkswagen Supply Van (Lagos AAA 525 JE), a Kia Ceranto Automobile (Lagos BDG 860 GQ), a Grand Caravan Dodge (Lagos APP 847 YF), 74 new TV units, 10 used TV units, and 13 fridges, amongst others.
In one other main interdiction in Jigawa state with a observe up operation in Kano, NDLEA operatives appearing on intelligence on Wednesday twenty third April seized consignments of opioids being moved from Kano to Niger Republic and Yobe state by Jigawa.
The NDLEA spokesman famous that hardly per week after the officers of the Directorate of Operations and Common Investigation (DOGI) uncovered 20 parcels of cocaine hid inside spiritual books going to Saudi Arabia at a logistics firm in Lagos, the operatives have once more intercepted one other cargo of 46 wraps of cocaine weighing 547grams hidden in physique cream going to the Center East nation.
The seizure was made on Wednesday, twenty third April, at a courier agency in Lagos. One other consignment intercepted similar day contains: 1.8kg pentazocine injection and 60 grams bromazepam tablets heading to Canada.
On the Seme border space of Badagry, Lagos, three Ghanaian women have been on Sunday, twentieth April arrested on the Gbaji checkpoint by NDLEA operatives whereas trying to smuggle a mixed 4.8 kilograms of Ghana Loud, a robust pressure of hashish, into Nigeria. The suspects arrested embrace: Haziza Zubairu, 42; Samirat Mustapha, 43; and Jamila Salifu, 26.
In Kano, a 60-year-old grandma, Safiya Shamsu, was nabbed on Friday, twenty fifth April nabbed at Samegu space of Kumbotso LGA with 5.6kg skunk, a pressure of hashish, whereas one other suspect, Muntari Labaran, 35, was taken into custody following the seizure of 100 litres of codeine syrup from him at Yelwa space of Dala LGA.
He additionally famous {that a} complete of three,814.9kg of skunk was destroyed on two farms in Ugbodu neighborhood, Ovia North East LGA, Edo state, on Thursday, twenty fourth April, when NDLEA operatives raided the plantations the place three suspects: Samuel Samson, 26; Daniel Peter, 20; and Abel Edah, 31, have been arrested.
