In a major interdiction operation, operatives of two Special Operations Units of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have recovered Canadian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, from Toronto, Canada worth N12, 397,500,000 in street value.
According to available information, operatives had been tracking and monitoring a container laden with the drugs for over four weeks.
The container, which had 195 big sacks of Canadian Loud, was eventually interdicted on June 23, 2026.
A total of 4,959 kilograms of the illicit drug was recovered from the container during a joint examination of the shipment by officers of the Apapa Strategic Command of the Agency, men of the Nigeria Customs Service, other security agencies, and ports stakeholders at the Apapa ports complex in Lagos.
The large illicit drug consignment, which was loaded into a 40ft container comprising a Ford and a Nissan vehicle, came under NDLEA tracking and monitoring system since April 25, 2026 when it arrived Toronto, Canada via truck, Montreal via rail on April 29, Tanger Med, Morocco on May 11, loaded on another vessel on May 23 before arriving Tincan port Lagos on June 4, and discharged there on June 5 before the container eventually left Tincan and arrived Apapa port on June 22.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in FCT Abuja in a joint operation with their colleagues in Anambra State have unraveled a syndicate which plants illicit drugs in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers in motor parks.
Their trick came to the fore when operatives in Abuja intercepted a consignment of methamphetamine in a Sienna bus coming from Nnewi, Anambra State at Abaji, FCT on June 20, 2026.
During a search of the bus, a waybill package was recovered containing whitish substances suspected to be methamphetamine concealed inside a black nylon bag, which was also put into another sack of clothes with the phone number of the receiver written on it.
A follow up operation conducted on the same day led to the arrest of the supposed receiver of the waybill, Gloria Peter, at Utako Motor Park.
Peter however vehemently denied knowledge and ownership of the package in her luggage.
This led to a swift arrest of the loaders of the Sienna bus in Nnewi, where one of them revealed that the drug package was put into the woman’s bag by him on the directive of the driver of the bus, Abdurrazak Isah.
His revelations made the driver open up, mentioning one of his passengers, Onyebuchi Victor Okoye, as the actual owner of the drug.
Onyebuchi was then picked up at Utako, FCT during another follow up operation.
The illicit consignment weighed 467.7grams.
Operatives of a Special Operations Unit of the NDLEA on June 27 acting on credible intelligence arrested 57-year-old Ikechukwu Uwakwe at a motor park in Iddo, Lagos with 209.50kg Scottish Loud, a strong strain of cannabis.
The illicit consignment was being taken to Enugu when it was intercepted.
Two nationals of Benin Republic: Hossou Tito Julien, 30, and Mancellim Dossou, 19, as well as a Nigerian, Jackson ThankGod, have been arrested by NDLEA operatives following credible intelligence.
They were nabbed on the Mile 2 bridge when their truck conveying illicit drug consignment from Togo through Benin Republic was intercepted on June 21.
A thorough search of the truck led to the recovery of 558,900 pills of Tramadol 250mg concealed in a fabricated compartment of the vehicle.
Two suspects: Lucky Abonga and Osas Azamobo, were also arrested along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on June 26 while transporting 118kg skunk among other legitimate goods in a truck, which left Ebute Ero area of Lagos Island, heading to Onitsha, Anambra State.
In another operation in Lagos, Helen Ese Idiji, 40, and Rashidat Sa’adullah, 53, were arrested the same June 26 at 15, Olumokun Street, Amukoko, with 28.8 kilograms of skunk recovered from them.
Investigation revealed that the principal suspect, Idiji stores her illicit consignments with the second suspect, Rashidat, from where she distributes to her customers.
With the same zeal, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places, and communities among others in the past week.
These included WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of Government Girls Science Secondary School, Damaturu, Yobe State; Adesalu Primary School, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos State; Government Girls Secondary School, Badawa, Kano State; School of Science and Islamic Studies, Ankpa, Kogi State; and Community Secondary School, Ezimo, Udenu LGA, Enugu State.
