Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,NDLEA, at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers State have seized opioids worth over N9.3 billion from seven watch-listed containers.
The containers, positioned for examination by officers of the NDLEA, Nigeria Customs Service, and others were inspected between May 28 and 30, 2025.
During the inspection. 825,200 bottles of codeine-based syrup and trodol worth N5,776,400,000 in street value were seized while a total 5,100,000 pills of opioids, especially tapentadol 225mg, worth N3,570,000,000 were recovered.
This brings the combined street value of the opioids to N9,346,400,000.00.
In another operation in Kano, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Kano-Maiduguri Road on May 30 intercepted the duo of Abubakar Hussein, 42, and Sahabi Adamu, 53, with $900,000 cash suspected to be counterfeit.
The suspects and the exhibit will be transferred to the appropriate agency for further investigation, a statement by the Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday said.
Arrested suspect
While a total of 390 compressed blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 275.300kg were recovered from a parked Toyota Sienna vehicle, marked: YLA-408GG, along Ngurore-Yola Road, Adamawa State on May 27, NDLEA operatives in Kwara State on May 31 arrested a notorious female drug dealer, Alhaja Mutiat Abdul-Fatai, at Oja Oba area of Ilorin, where various quantities of opioids, including tramadol, flunitrazepam, and codeine-based syrup, were seized from her.
The War Against Drug Abuse social advocacy activities by NDLEA Commands equally continued across the country in the past week.
Some of them included WADA sensitisation lecture delivered to students and staff of Government Day Senior Secondary School, Kwasarawa, Katsina State; Corpus Christi College, Achi, Enugu, Enugu State; Epignosis Standard College, Onitsha, Anambra State; Government Girls Secondary School, Utai, Wudil LGA, Kano State; and Government Girls Secondary School, Calabar, Cross River State.
