NDLEA arrests 1,247 suspects in Edo
The suspects were arrested between 2015 and 2018.
The suspects were arrested between 2015 and 2018.
The officers were killed at a checkpoint in Ondo State.
The agency says it referred 36 drug users for ‘counseling’, while five regular clients were counselled and rehabilitated.
An official says the 2019 election is the first national assignment to be executed jointly with other security organisations.
The figure represents about 76 per cent of the annual revenue target allocated to the command.
The command also secured the conviction of no fewer than 92 drug traffickers in the state during the period.
The levies were imposed as part of efforts to generate funds to assist security agencies.
“This brings to 581 million Tramadol tablets uncovered within two days of the search."
“Even if everybody in Nigeria undergoes surgery every year, we do not need the quantity that enters our country."
Mai Rakumi owned up to the crime in a plea bargain.
The operatives had raided a suspected hideout of drug dealers.
The NDLEA chief spoke in New York.
The suspects comprise 88 males and 15 females.
Baba Suwe was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in 2011 on the suspicion that he ingested cocaine wraps.
The agency said that the action was to check drug trafficking and the use and sale of abusive substances.
The agency also seized a truck carrying 2,748 cartons of banned cough syrup containing codeine
“The drugs seized include Tramadol, Cocaine, Exol, Raphynol and Heroine."
In Ikere-Ekiti, home town of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) candidate, Olusola Kolapo, there was heavy security presence.
This is made up of 1,291 staff within the rank and file and 20 others converted to officer cadre.
The agency says it was able to secure the conviction of 54 suspects.
The agency says 18 persons have been convicted and committed to prison.
The governor urges residents to defend themselves with stones.
The convicts were jailed for possessing 1.8 kg of psychotropic substances 1.4 kg of Indian hemp
The senator has spent years fighting his extradition to the United States on narcotics charges.
The official says some of the illicit drugs were from Ghana, Togo, and Nigeria.
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