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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recovered over 7.6 million pills of tramadol and a total of 76,273.4 kilograms of different strains of cannabis, including Colorado, Loud, and Skunk, with several members of drug trafficking organisations linked to the seizures arrested.
Out of the total opioids seized during the raids, not less than 3,874,000 pills of tramadol 225 mg and 100 mg, and others, as well as 252.2 litres of codeine syrup, were recovered from a warehouse at Oko market, Asaba, Delta State, on Saturday, 6 December 2025, while no fewer than 1.2 million tablets of tramadol 225 mg were seized from a suspect, Kelechi Nwakocha, 35, on Wednesday, 3 December, when NDLEA operatives on patrol at Orogwe, along the Onitsha–Owerri road, Imo State, intercepted his vehicle conveying the consignment, which was loaded at Aba, Abia State, heading to Onitsha, Anambra State.
A statement by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed that in Adamawa State, NDLEA officers on Monday, 1 December 2025, intercepted a Toyota Hiace bus marked MGU 554 XB along Maraba–Mubi, coming from Jos, Plateau State, going to Mubi, with a total of 1,577,112 capsules of tramadol and exol-5 tablets, all concealed inside jumbo bags mixed with new rubber sandals and slippers.
Two suspects—Kabiru Buba, 25, and Hamza Abubakar, 32—were arrested in connection with the seizure. Similarly, another suspect, Mudansir Rabiu, 27, was nabbed along the Zaria–Kano road, Kano State, with 197,000 pills of exol-5.
Operatives of a special operations unit of the NDLEA stormed forests in Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, where they destroyed 14,654 kilograms of skunk and arrested two suspects: Yusuf Iliyasu, 50, and Okumu Chinedu, 26.
In another operation, the operatives on Tuesday, 2 December, stormed the forests in Asin-Ekiti, Ikole LGA, Ekiti State, where they destroyed 54,300 kg of skunk in two large warehouses that were razed, while 28.3 kg of the same psychoactive substance was recovered for the purpose of prosecution.
Following actionable intelligence, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday, 2 December, raided Igoba forest in Akure North LGA, Ondo State, where a total of 2,483 compressed blocks of skunk and 247 bags of the same substance, all weighing 5,442 kilograms, were recovered and five suspects arrested.
Those nabbed include: Jacob Omodowo, 66; Joy Oluatobi Peace, 24; Babatunde Olamide, 40; Echi Fidelis Joseph, 57; and Ankrah Akano, 56.
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While 500 kg of the same substance was recovered from a Mercedes Benz van marked MGU 614 XB by NDLEA officers on patrol along the Mokwa–Jebba road in Niger State on 4 December, with the driver, Amos Yakubu, 46, arrested, operatives in the FCT Abuja on Wednesday, 3 December, intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a synthetic cannabis, weighing 22 kg at Abaji expressway.
A follow-up operation at Jabi park in Abuja led to the arrest of a female receiver, Ali Blessing, 33. Also in the FCT, a suspect, Aliyu Usman, 39, was arrested by operatives on Friday, 5 December, with 24 kg of skunk and 573,500 pills of exol-5 along the Kwali–Gwagwalada expressway.
In Lagos, NDLEA operatives recovered 217 pouches of Canadian Loud weighing 113 kg from a suspect, Ezenwa Udoka, at Ladipo market, Mushin, while Izuchukwu Usulor was nabbed with 351 kg of skunk at Onipanu area of the state on 5 December, and Susan Okoro was arrested with 104.1 kg of the same psychoactive substance at Trade Fair complex, Ojo, on Tuesday, 2 December.
A total of 447.5 kilograms of skunk were recovered from two Honda Accord cars marked ABC-678 KK and GGE-772 FB at Agho forest, Akoko Edo LGA, Edo State. A suspect, Dada Adedara Babawibi, 56, was apprehended in connection with the seizure.
A raid operation at a warehouse in the Isiefve community, Ohuwunde LGA, led to the seizure of 315.8 kg of skunk and the arrest of a suspect, Stanley Obasuwa.
With the same vigour, commands and formations of the agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, workplaces, and communities, among others, in the past week.
These include: WADA sensitisation lectures to students and staff of St. Michael’s Academy, Sabon Gari, Kano; Harry Pass Secondary School, Masaje, Gboko LGA, Benue; and Community Junior Secondary School, Okuru-Ama, Obio/Akpor LGA, Rivers State, among others.
While commending the officers and men of the Special Operations Unit (SOU), Delta, Adamawa, Imo, Ondo, Lagos, Kano, FCT, Niger, and Edo Commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Marwa (retd), stated that their operational successes and those of their compatriots across the country—especially their balanced approach to drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts—are well appreciated.
