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Marwa: Drug Barons Must Lose Their Wealth to Be Truly Defeated

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2026

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd), has declared that the fight against drug trafficking can only succeed when criminal networks are stripped of the financial gains that sustain their operations. Marwa made the

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Marwa Warns Traditional Rulers After Discovery of Drug Cartels’ Meth Labs in Southwest Forests

Daily Dispatch July 25, 2026

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.), has called on traditional rulers, parents and community leaders to take ownership of Nigeria’s war against drug abuse and illicit trafficking, warning that criminal drug syndicates are increasingly exploiting rural communities and forests for illegal

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Drug war: Why President Tinubu ‘ll continue to strengthen NDLEA – NSA Ribadu, AGF Fagbemi

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2025

. Commend Marwa’s leadership as Agency empowers strategic commands, formations with 48 new vehicles. It’s a milestone made possible by the President’s strategic support, says Marwa The National Security Adviser Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has said that the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will continue to strengthen the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)

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NDLEA nabs woman concealing 2.2kg cocaine in luggage at Lagos Airport

Daily Dispatch June 22, 2025

Uncovers More Drug Shipments Across States A 43-year-old make-up artist, Adekoya Adebukonla Mary, who claimed she was heading to India for fibroid surgery, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, after 2.2 kilograms of cocaine were discovered concealed within the

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Marwa Commissions NDLEA/NOA Vision Centre

Daily Dispatch June 20, 2025

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Rtd) has commissioned a high-tech Vision Centre at its National Headquarters Annex in Abuja as part of efforts to promote and prioritise staff welfare as well as to boost their morale. The facility, a product of strategic partnership between the […]

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Illicit drug consignment packaged as green tea intercepted at Lagos airport

Daily Dispatch June 8, 2025

No fewer than 66 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, packaged as green tea have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos. According to the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, the seizure made last […]