NDLEA intercepts US, Europe-bound drugs in shoe soles, N16.6bn opioids at seaports

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NDLEA intercepts US, Europe-bound drugs in shoe soles, N16.6bn opioids at seaports
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced that its operatives have intercepted consignments of opioids concealed in the soles of shoes and hair attachments, heading to the United States, United Kingdom, and Cyprus, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, and three courier companies in the state.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has announced that its operatives have intercepted consignments of opioids concealed in the soles of shoes and hair attachments, heading to the United States, United Kingdom, and Cyprus, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport , Ikeja, Lagos, and three courier companies in the state.

Headquarters, Abuja. Babafemi disclosed that a cash sum of N968,880 and a Toyota Avalon car marked UWN 389 AS were also recovered from the suspect at the time of his arrest. According to the statement, not less than 293 ampoules of promethazine and pentazocine injection, as well as 1.

operatives during a 100 percent joint examination of watch-listed containers with men of the Customs Service and other security agencies at the Tincan port in Lagos and Port Harcourt port, Onne, Rivers State, between Tuesday, 22nd and Wednesday, 23rd October.

operatives in Lagos on Friday, 25th October, raided the Igbo-Igunuko shrine, located at Alfa Beach, Ajah, where jumbo bags of Ghanaian Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,760 kg were recovered, and two suspects, Gbenga Abiodun and Sunday Abiodun, were arrested. Another suspect, Ademola Oyelakin, was also arrested the same day with 770 kg of the same psychoactive substance along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

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