NDLEA arrests spare parts dealer over cocaine smuggling, makes more drug busts
Mr Ubodoeze reportedly admitted to dealing in cocaine while operating as a spare parts dealer at Ladipo Market in Lagos
Mr Ubodoeze reportedly admitted to dealing in cocaine while operating as a spare parts dealer at Ladipo Market in Lagos
He said the Kano command also secured 128 convictions for various drug-related offences.
“The suspect was subsequently placed on excretion observation. He excreted 90 pellets of cocaine weighing 2.019kg."
One of the traffickers, Freeman Ogbonna, was set to be heading for Delhi in India last Sunday, 31 March, when ...
The NDLEA said 640 drug trafficking suspects comprising 614 males and 26 females were arrested within the period under review.
The arrested man came in from Douala, Cameroon through Addis Ababa on Ethiopian Airline.
The suspects comprised 206 males and 12 females.
In its report on the global cocaine market, the UN agency expressed concern that the cultivation of the coca plant ...
NDLEA operatives are still investigating the matter with the aim of arresting and prosecuting other suspects.
NDLEA said the Christmas Day arrest followed credible intelligence obtained by the NDLEA after its operatives searched the suspect's two ...
The NDLEA had been on the trail of the suspects since 2013, an official said.
The four police officers with whom Abba Kyari is now facing the charges are Sunday Ubua, an assistant commissioner of ...
The agency said they arrested 72 suspects for various drug related offences within the period.
The NDLEA secured part of the cocaine for use as exhibit during the prosecution of the suspects
With what Marwa and his men have achieved so far within their short time in office, they deserve improved institutional ...
According to the NDLEA, at least, four drug barons, including a Jamaican and the warehouse manager have been arrested.
The court admitted cash evidence and 24 packs of cocaine tendered by NDLEA against Abba Kyari and his co-defendants in ...
He said that the NDLEA was ready to curb the menace of illegal drug dealers in the nation’s maritime space.
The judge sentenced two of Abba Kyari’s co-defendants to two years’ imprisonment on each of counts 5, 6 and 7 ...
Nigeria's Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, filed the extradition proceedings against Mr Kyari, seeking the court’s approval to ...
The two defendants are non-police officers facing eight charges of illegal cocaine dealing along with Abba Kyari and others.
The NDLEA is investigating Abba Kyari, a suspended deputy commissioner of police, and other police officers for their alleged involvement ...
The NDLEA had earlier declared Mr Kyari wanted for aiding and abetting drug pushing and running his own drug cartel.
“Of spectacular note was the seizure of 1.2kg of cocaine in Akwa Ibom State, being the highest seizure in 18 ...
26-year-old man was also arrested on August 6 in the state with 1.2301kg of cocaine worth about N25 million, says ...
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