The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 589 bags of Canadian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, worth 1.042 billion naira only in street value in a Lagos hotel.
This was disclosed by the NDLEA, Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who explained that the items suspected to be proceeds of illicit drug trade recovered from the hotel included a Toyota Prado Landcruiser SUV, Toyota Sienna, Volkswagen Delivery Van, Kia Ceranto, Grand Caravan Dodge, 74 new TV sets, 10 used TV sets, and 13 refrigerators, among others.
He said the illicit drug, with a total weight of 417.3 kilograms, was seized during an operation in the 80-room hotel in Victoria Island, which it said was used as cover for distributing illicit substances.
Babafemi, disclosed that no fewer than three were arrested in the course of the operation at the five-storey hotel building between Friday April 25 and Saturday April 26, 2025, while two other suspects were currently at large.
The Agency Image-maker, further disclosed that the agency also intercepted over two million pills of tramadol in Kano and Jigawa states.
He explained that its operatives, acting on intelligence, on April 23 seized consignments of opioids being moved from Kano to the Niger Republic and Yobe State, through Jigawa.
It noted that the psychoactive substances were being moved in a Toyota Sienna vehicle at about 2:30 am along Kano- Ringim Road, Gumel town, when anti-narcotic officers on patrol intercepted them and arrested two suspects.
Recovered from the Sienna vehicle were 200,000 pills of 250mg of tramadol and 217,500 capsules of pregabalin.
In a statement, he noted that another shipment of 46 wraps of cocaine weighing 547 grams hidden in body cream bound for the Middle East country, was intercepted at a courier firm in Lagos on April 23.
He said the seizure came barely a week after NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) uncovered 20 parcels of cocaine concealed inside religious books bound for Saudi Arabia at a logistics company in Lagos.
Babafemi also said another consignment intercepted the same day included 1.8kg pentazocine injection and 60 grams bromazepam tablets heading for Canada.
Babafemi, in the statement, further disclosed that three Ghanaian ladies were on arrested on April 20 at the Gbaji checkpoint, at the Seme border area of Badagry, Lagos, by NDLEA operatives while attempting to smuggle 4.8kilograms of Ghana Loud, a strong strain of cannabis into Nigeria.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, Lagos, Kano, Jigawa, Edo and Seme commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.) equally praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for ensuring a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
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