NEWS

NDLEA Sells Drug Barons’ Assets for N6.1bn, Sends Warning to Criminal Networks

Daily Dispatch June 15, 2026

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dealt a major financial blow to drug trafficking syndicates, raising over N6.1 billion from the auction of properties confiscated from convicted drug kingpins across the country. The assets, which include a six-storey luxury hotel in Victoria

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Nigeria Slams $6 Million Penalty on Indian Vessel, 11 Sailors Over Cocaine Smuggling

Daily Dispatch June 11, 2026

A Federal High Court in Lagos has dealt a major blow to international drug trafficking networks, convicting 11 Indian sailors and a merchant vessel for smuggling 31.5 kilogrammes of cocaine into Nigeria and imposing financial penalties totaling more than $6 million. The landmark judgment, delivered on Thursday by Justice Joseph Chukwujekwu Aneke, followed the successful

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NDLEA Arrests 75-Year-Old Suspected Drug Dealer in Ebonyi

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2026

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intensified its nationwide crackdown on illicit drug trafficking, intercepting a massive consignment of opioids concealed in a truck carrying building materials in Taraba State and arresting a 75-year-old suspected drug dealer in Ebonyi State. The operations, which also led to the arrest of four notorious female drug

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NDLEA Nabs 63-Year-Old Chinese Woman With 31kg ‘Canadian Loud’ at Lagos Airport

Daily Dispatch May 24, 2026

…..Seizes N2.1bn Opioids Shipment Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 63-year-old Chinese woman, Ting Hung Kiong, over an alleged attempt to smuggle 31 kilogrammes of “Canadian Loud,” a synthetic strain of cannabis, into Nigeria through the Lagos airport. The suspect, said to be a Malaysian naturalised citizen, was arrested

FEATURES

ARTICLE: Cocktail of Meth: Why Nigeria’s Forests Are the New Cartel Brewery

Daily Dispatch May 22, 2026

By Danjuma Amodu The Abidagba Forest in Ijebu East was supposed to grow timber. Instead, it grew Nigeria’s largest known methamphetamine laboratory. On 16 May 2026, NDLEA operatives stormed a remote farm and found what no one wanted to admit: three Mexican “cookers” and four Nigerian collaborators running an industrial-scale drug factory on Nigerian soil. […]

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Tinubu Commends NDLEA Over Bust of Nigerian-Mexican Drug Syndicate

Daily Dispatch May 22, 2026

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for dismantling a major Nigerian-Mexican drug trafficking syndicate and uncovering a multi-million-dollar illicit drug production network operating in the country. The President’s commendation followed the announcement by the NDLEA Chairman, Mohammed Buba Marwa, of a major