. Arrests cross-border kingpin
Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) have intercepted consignments of captagon, broadly often known as ‘Jihadi drug’ and hundreds of thousands of opioid tablets value over N6.2 billion at the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos.
NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi stated the captagon cargo was seized at the Lagos airport on Saturday twenty second August 2026 following the arrest of a 49-year-old cross-border kingpin Akinbile Kazeem Aikins, who arrived from Accra Ghana aboard an African World Airways flight.
A search of his carton of native bathing cleaning soap, popularly referred to as “Ghana Cleaning soap,” led to the restoration of 47,200 tablets of the illicit amphetamine drug value over N1.5 billion hid inside blocks of cleaning soap. Captagon, which is notoriously dubbed the ‘Jihadi drug’ for its use in funding extremist actions in battle zones, was first intercepted in Nigeria by NDLEA in September 2021 at the Apapa port in Lagos. After his arrest, Akinbile claimed he was meant to ship the consignment in the North.
In one other profitable interdiction operation at the Lagos airport, no fewer than 3,900,030 tablets of Tramaking 225mg and Tapentadol 250mg, with a mixed gross weight of two,787.40 kilograms and greater than N4.6 billion in road worth, had been recovered from 4 deserted consignments at the import shed of the MMIA. Three of the consignments, comprising 900,000 tablets of Tramaking (815.40kg), arrived aboard RwandAir flights from Bangladesh, whereas a fourth, comprising 3,000,030 tablets of Tapentadol (1,972kg), arrived on Qatar Airways from Amsterdam.
The shipments, which had been positioned beneath shut watch after nobody confirmed as much as declare them, had been formally retrieved after a joint examination by NDLEA officers, Customs and different stakeholders on Friday twenty eighth August.
A 31-year-old US-returnee, Sowunmi David Oludotun was on nineteenth August arrested by NDLEA operatives at Ikate space of Lekki after he confirmed as much as take supply of three.350 kilograms of Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish imported from the UK.
Fireproof secure cracked open in Rivers drug den raid
In Rivers state, NDLEA operatives have raided the infamous Abuja Down/Up space of Port Harcourt the place they recovered a fireproof iron secure amongst different objects. When the secure was cracked open with a welding machine on Tuesday twenty fifth August, 237 grams of colorado; 316 grams of cocaine, and 10 grams of heroin had been recovered from it.
Three suspects: Oyedele Daniel, 42; Taye Saliu, 36; and Kehinde Saliu, 36, had been on Friday twenty eighth August nabbed at Ipele-Idoani highway, in Ondo state with a complete of 728kg skunk recovered from their truck marked KRE 120 XB. Two different suspects: Uche Joseph, 35, and
Godwin Umeh, 21, had been arrested at Aponmu forest with 341kg of identical substance on Wednesday twenty sixth August.
In Delta state, over 176,000 tablets of various opioids together with tramadol, molly and others had been recovered from two interdiction operations in elements of the state between Wednesday twenty sixth and Friday twenty eighth August.
With the identical vigour, Instructions and formations of the Company throughout the nation continued their Conflict Towards Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitization actions to colleges, worship centres, work locations and communities amongst others in the previous week. These embrace: WADA enlightenment lecture to college students and employees of Markaz Littahfizul Quran Wal Islamiyyat, Dadin Kowa, Gombe; Zangina Islamiyyah Alasawa Kurna, Ungogo LGA, Kano; youths at the adolescent life-style programme organised by NNPCL in Benin metropolis, Edo state; whereas the Ondo State Command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy go to to the State Governor, Dr. Fortunate Aiyedatiwa, with the Taraba state command of the Company paying an identical advocacy go to to the State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas, amongst others.
Whereas commending the officers and males of MMIA, Ondo, and Delta Instructions for the assorted profitable operations, Chairman/Chief Govt Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) enjoined them and their colleagues throughout the nation to proceed with the continuing balanced method to the drug management efforts of the Company.
He additionally directed them to maintain the momentum towards drug traffickers who’re determined to discover each means, together with concealment in on a regular basis home items like cleaning soap, to maneuver their illicit consignments.
s of opioid tablets value over N6.2 billion at the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos.
NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi stated the captagon cargo was seized at the Lagos airport on Saturday twenty second August 2026 following the arrest of a 49-year-old cross-border kingpin Akinbile Kazeem Aikins, who arrived from Accra Ghana aboard an African World Airways flight.
A search of his carton of native bathing cleaning soap, popularly referred to as “Ghana Cleaning soap,” led to the restoration of 47,200 tablets of the illicit amphetamine drug value over N1.5 billion hid inside blocks of cleaning soap. Captagon, which is notoriously dubbed the ‘Jihadi drug’ for its use in funding extremist actions in battle zones, was first intercepted in Nigeria by NDLEA in September 2021 at the Apapa port in Lagos. After his arrest, Akinbile claimed he was meant to ship the consignment in the North.
In one other profitable interdiction operation at the Lagos airport, no fewer than 3,900,030 tablets of Tramaking 225mg and Tapentadol 250mg, with a mixed gross weight of two,787.40 kilograms and greater than N4.6 billion in road worth, had been recovered from 4 deserted consignments at the import shed of the MMIA. Three of the consignments, comprising 900,000 tablets of Tramaking (815.40kg), arrived aboard RwandAir flights from Bangladesh, whereas a fourth, comprising 3,000,030 tablets of Tapentadol (1,972kg), arrived on Qatar Airways from Amsterdam.
The shipments, which had been positioned beneath shut watch after nobody confirmed as much as declare them, had been formally retrieved after a joint examination by NDLEA officers, Customs and different stakeholders on Friday twenty eighth August.
A 31-year-old US-returnee, Sowunmi David Oludotun was on nineteenth August arrested by NDLEA operatives at Ikate space of Lekki after he confirmed as much as take supply of three.350 kilograms of Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish imported from the UK.
Fireproof secure cracked open in Rivers drug den raid. In Rivers state, NDLEA operatives have raided the infamous Abuja Down/Up space of Port Harcourt the place they recovered a fireproof iron secure amongst different objects. When the secure was cracked open with a welding machine on Tuesday twenty fifth August, 237 grams of colorado; 316 grams of cocaine, and 10 grams of heroin had been recovered from it.
Three suspects: Oyedele Daniel, 42; Taye Saliu, 36; and Kehinde Saliu, 36, had been on Friday twenty eighth August nabbed at Ipele-Idoani highway, in Ondo state with a complete of 728kg skunk recovered from their truck marked KRE 120 XB. Two different suspects: Uche Joseph, 35, and
Godwin Umeh, 21, had been arrested at Aponmu forest with 341kg of identical substance on Wednesday twenty sixth August.
In Delta state, over 176,000 tablets of various opioids together with tramadol, molly and others had been recovered from two interdiction operations in elements of the state between Wednesday twenty sixth and Friday twenty eighth August.
With the identical vigour, Instructions and formations of the Company throughout the nation continued their Conflict Towards Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitization actions to colleges, worship centres, work locations and communities amongst others in the previous week. These embrace: WADA enlightenment lecture to college students and employees of Markaz Littahfizul Quran Wal Islamiyyat, Dadin Kowa, Gombe; Zangina Islamiyyah Alasawa Kurna, Ungogo LGA, Kano; youths at the adolescent life-style programme organised by NNPCL in Benin metropolis, Edo state; whereas the Ondo State Command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy go to to the State Governor, Dr. Fortunate Aiyedatiwa, with the Taraba state command of the Company paying an identical advocacy go to to the State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas, amongst others.
Whereas commending the officers and males of MMIA, Ondo, and Delta Instructions for the assorted profitable operations, Chairman/Chief Govt Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) enjoined them and their colleagues throughout the nation to proceed with the continuing balanced method to the drug management efforts of the Company.
He additionally directed them to maintain the momentum towards drug traffickers who’re determined to discover each means, together with concealment in on a regular basis home items like cleaning soap, to maneuver their illicit consignments.
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