Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted one Million Seven Hundred and Sixty Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty (1,760,460) pills of Tramadol and other opioids hidden in Indomie noodles packs and others at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos as well as other parts of the state.

While over 600,000 pills of Tramadol 225mg coming from Karachi, Pakistan in two separate shipments on Ethiopian Airlines flights were intercepted by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the SAHCO import shed of the Lagos airport on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th December 2022; 5,960 pills of Rohypnol concealed in 60 packs of Indomie noodles going to Johannesburg, South Africa were also seized at the SAHCO export shed of the airport on Wednesday 14th December,2022.

A female freight agent, Olaleye Adeola has already been arrested in connection with the noodles consignment.

The consignment was seized at the Lagos airport by NDLEA operatives on 25th November 2022, while a market labourer, Oke Abosede Ronke whose services were requested to convey the drug for export had earlier been arrested also.

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Lagos on Sunday 11th December,2022, intercepted a truck and a bus conveying 113 jumbo bags of cannabis sativa weighing 4,802.84 kilograms around the VGC estate area of Ajah while three suspects;Taofeek Yusuf; Ifeanyi Okorie and Israel Nwachukwu were arrested in connection with the seizures.

Similarly,In Gombe State, a total of 1,154,500 pills of Tramadol, Rohypnol and Exol being transported from Onitsha, Anambra state to Gombe by a truck driver, Umar Hassan,were seized on Thursday 15th December,2022, at Bye pass area of Gombe by a team of NDLEA officers.

NDLEA operatives in Edo state on Friday 16th December,2022, also intercepted a Honda Ridgeline pick-up vehicle loaded with 29 bags of Cannabis Sativa weighing 319kgs. The driver of the vehicle, Alfred Vratombo, 32, was arrested with fake police uniforms, which he was using to deceive security men on the road.

In another vein, an attempt by a drug dealer, Chucks Kalu, 29, to smuggle into Kano 26kgs of cannabis concealed inside packs of blenders was thwarted by the operatives who intercepted the consignment along Abuja-Kaduna express road and later arrested him in a follow up operation in Kano, just as another suspect, Rabilu Sa’ad Abubakar,42, was also arrested in a follow up operation in Kano, following the seizure of his consignment 1,980 bottles of Cough syrup with codeine, concealed inside cartons, were seized along Abuja-Kaduna express road.

Similarly, in Bauchi State, operatives on Saturday 17th December,2022, also arrested Muhammed Ahmed,with 288 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 244.5Kg in Darazo area of the state.