Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA operatives have uncovered 2,550,000 pills of Tramaking 225mg, Tramaking 250mg and Royal Tapentadol 250mg weighing 1,640.55kg at the import shed of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement on Sunday said the illicit drugs was discovered on Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
He said the opioids, valued at over N3 billion, were imported from India and Bangladesh via Qatar Airways, RwandAir and Ethiopian Airlines and seized during a joint examination of three consignments.
In Bauchi, operatives arrested Umar Hamidu, 35, and Abdulkarim Salihu, 45, along Maiduguri bypass with 300 compressed blocks of skunk weighing 262.5kg concealed in false bottom of a truck marked MUB757 YH.
NDLEA officers also destroyed two cannabis farms with estimated yield of 1,360.23kg at Eko Camp, Ilushi, Edo State, on Wednesday, September 23.
In Lagos, two female suspects, Odumabo Kehinde, 36, and Obiekwe Chioma, 40, were arrested on Saturday, September 26, at Anifowoshe Street, Mushin, with 3.4kg skunk.
Same day, operatives intercepted 58-year-old Ugwu Johnson at Ebute-Ero motor park with 5.920kg skunk, 2,400 ampoules of pentazocine injection, 8,400 tablets of nitrazepam and 40,000 pills of tramadol.
Two Togolese nationals, Yinusa Abdulsamad, 35, and Fatai Baba, 33, were arrested on Saturday, September 26, at Iganna-Ilero Road, Iganna, Oyo State, with 305.6kg skunk concealed in two pick-up vans used for cross-border trafficking of Ghana-sourced cannabis into Nigeria.
At Seme border in Badagry, five suspects were arrested with 420 cartons of nitrous oxide, popularly called laughing gas, weighing 1,688.4kg.
The suspects are Kingsley John, 40; John Chibuike Okeke, 44; Lamidi Ismaila, 40; Babatunde Samuel, 42; and Afeesu Idowu, 47.
Meanwhile, NDLEA Commands across the country continued War Against Drug Abuse sensitisation lectures in schools, worship centres and communities.
Chairman of NDLEA, Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), commended officers of MMIA, AIIA, Lagos, Oyo, Edo, Seme and Bauchi Commands and urged them to sustain balanced approach to drug control.
