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Ms Abimbola Adelakun’s July 27, 2023 article was predictable. Right from its morbid headline, you knew it was going to be a scurrilous attack on Lagos and its leadership. Unfortunately, that has been the tradition of this fine writer.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have thwarted plans to smuggle over five million pills of Tramadol said to be worth N3.7bn into the country.
“Fresh bid to smuggle into Nigeria, another consignment of Colorado, a synthetic variant of cannabis, through the Tincan port in Apapa Lagos was again on Friday 21st July frustrated by NDLEA officers who discovered a total of 323 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 161.5kg concealed in one of the four used vehicles in a container marked MEDU 7519460 coming from Montreal, Canada, during a joint examination of the shipment...
A notorious drug kingpin, Charles Uwagbale, who specializes in sponsoring young Nigerians to traffick Class A drugs to Europe, especially to Italy, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) who stormed his hotel room in Okota area of Lagos State, late on Friday 21st July when he was preparing…
The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a drug lord while giving a suspected recruited courier 93 cocaine wraps to swallow in a Lagos hotel. The agency also disclosed that it recovered 12.4 million pills of opioids, 6,921.5 kg.