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Arrests 70-Year-Old Woman
- Safiu Kehinde
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted two consignments of synthetic cannabis, popularly called Colorado or Colos, concealed in music speakers at two different motor parks in Lagos with at least seven suspects connected to the seized cargoes arrested.
The NDLEA also intercepted two shipments of same substance concealed in consolidated cargoes coming from the United Kingdom.
This was made known in a statement issued on Sunday by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi.
According to Babafemi, NDLEA operatives attached to the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) intercepted the music speaker rigged with three packs of Colorado at a motor park in Maza Maza, Lagos, heading to Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and ultimately Liberia.
A tour agent Ifeanyi Obed Augustine, 41, and the consignment’s owner Obasi Ugochuckwu, 46, were both arrested after a swift sting operation at a nearby eatery.
The other operation was carried out at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos, where NDLEA operatives intercepted a UK-inbound consignment concealing 27 parcels of colos weighing 32.20kg.
A real estate agent Abideen Jide Salami, who showed up with a secret collection code relayed from his UK-based brother to collect a large luggage containing the illicit substance was arrested on Wednesday 9th September 2026.
In a follow-up operation which stemmed from a second UK consignment, NDLEA operatives were led to the designated recipient of another consignment of Colorado weighing 12.25kg.
The suspect Nurudeen Abiodun Kadiri, 44, said the consignment was sent to him by his brother in the UK.
In a separate operation at Iddo park, a suspect Ifeanyi Nwokolo Henry was on Friday 11th September nabbed while attempting to dispatch 2.1kg of Colorado to Kano.
In Delta State, two separate arrests at Ughelli and Asaba yielded a haul of ampoules of pentazocine injection, codeine syrup, tramadol, diazepam, flunitrazepam (hypnox) and MDMA (Molly), with several of them concealed in music speakers, while two suspects: Emeka Oji and Chukwuebuka Anedi were arrested.
In Kano, a raid at Sabon Gari led to the arrest of a 20-year-old suspect Saidu Adamu with a staggering 785,000 capsules of Pregabalin weighing 669.425kg.
A stop-and-search operation along the Zaria–Kano–Hadejia road netted 1,700 tablets of diazepam concealed inside loaves of bread seized from Habibu Sabitu, 28, even as 51-year-old Chinedu Uzor was nabbed at Katako market, Jos, Plateau state, with 157,100 capsules of tramadol.
Meanwhile, in Ondo state, NDLEA officers acting on credible intelligence last week Wednesday, raided a residence along Oke-Iya, Ijoka Road, Akure.
They recovered 186kg of skunk concealed in the boot of a Toyota Avalon car marked ABJ 917 FV, from a 58-year-old suspect Paul Ogbuwala who was planning to move the consignment to Jos for onward distribution.
In Kaduna, a female suspect Hannah Michael was arrested at Gonin Gora with 369.6kg of cannabis, while in Bayelsa State, four suspects including a 70-year-old woman Godwoman Gboriye were arrested at Ovom, Yenagoa, with 110 bags of cannabis weighing 876kg.
Others are: Motombo Silver, 44; Pere Andrew, 39, and Keme Andrew, 43.