Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered consignments of high potency illicit drugs concealed in water purifier machines shipped to Lagos from Europe.
The illicit drug consignments were made up mainly of ketamine weighing 3kilograms and 199 grams of MDMA (Ecstasy) pills.
They were carefully hidden in the water purifier machines discovered and seized at a courier company in Lagos on May 26, 2026.
In Kaduna, NDLEA operatives arrested a couple: Musa Sunday and Mercy Sunday, along with another suspect, Salomi Ezekiel, 38, following the seizure of 100 jumbo bags of skunk with a gross weight of 1,246 kilograms from their home at Gonin Gora area of Kaduna on May 24.
In another interdiction operation in the state, NDLEA officers on patrol along Abuja-Kaduna highway by Jere, on the same day, intercepted a 30-year-old suspect, Sunusi Musa, with 380 military-grade ammunition, RLA 7.62mm, going to Katsina State.
The suspect and the exhibit have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further action.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Niger State acting on credible intelligence raided a warehouse at Gidan Kukah, Bosso LGA where 457 kilograms of skunk were recovered on May 27 and a suspect, Godwin Zakka, 46, arrested at his Gbeganu, Minna residence in connection with the seizure.
In Enugu, operatives on patrol along Onitsha-Enugu Expressway May 28 intercepted a Taraba State-bound commercial vehicle marked JAY-158-YF.
A search of the bus led to the recovery of 22,000 pills of tramadol, 100 ampoules of pentazocine and 200 grams of bromazepam, while a suspect James Maigari Wisdom was arrested.
With the same zeal, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places, and communities among others in the past week.
These included WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of Government Secondary School, Adiabo, Cross River State; St Patrick’s Memorial College, Wukari, Taraba State; Roman Catholic Mission Nursery and Primary School, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos State; and Kings Secondary School, Amawbia, Anambra State.
While commending the officers, men and women of Kaduna, Niger, and Enugu Commands as well as those of DOGI for the arrests and seizures, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd,), appreciated their drug supply reduction efforts balanced with WADA sensitisation activities while he charged them and their compatriots across the country not to rest on their laurels.
