A 73-year-old grandpa James Ugbedo has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alleged drug crime on Friday 7th November.
Ugbedo, according to the spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi said on Sunday in a statement, was arrested in a cannabis plantation at Igbeshi forest, Imiakebo, Etsako East LGA, Edo State.
The operatives also destroyed 1,459.75kg skunk alongside 5.6kg of same substance evacuated, by the NDLEA.
Similarly, men of the anti narcotic Agency arrested 70-year-old grandma, Comfort Odudu at Onopa, Yenagoa, Bayelsa state with 5kg skunk on Tuesday 4th November.
In Niger state, NDLEA operatives on Thursday 6th November intercepted Ibrahim Mohammed, 35, in a Volvo truck marked GRZ 872 XA on Kainji-Wawa road while conveying 87,000 pills of tramadol and 72kg of skunk, a strain of cannabis.
Not less than 34,520 capsules of tramadol were found concealed in different compartments of a Toyota Corolla car marked GAN 102 AR intercepted along Zaki-Biam – Wukari road on Monday 3rd November 2025.
The driver of the vehicle, Aliyu Samaila, 25, was arrested with substance suspected to be opioids, loaded from Onitsha, Anambra State.
The consignment was heading to Cameroon. In another operation in Taraba, NDLEA officers on Thursday 6th November arrested a suspect Felix Tanko Chinedu, 28, with 15,020 capsules of tramadol at Kasuwabera ATC in Ardo Kola Local Government Area of the State.
In Kogi state, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Okene/Lokoja highway on Wednesday 5th November intercepted a consignment of 7.600kg Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, NDLEA said.
A follow-up operation in Abuja led to the arrest of the owner, Chukwunonso Anieze, 40, while no fewer than 175,000 pills of opioids were recovered from another consignment at the location same day.
Three suspects: Olayide Oyidiran, 39; Abdulsalam Abdulsalam, 28; and Opeyemi Tijjani, 39, were on Wednesday 5th November nabbed at Abuja/Kaduna tollgate with 769kg skunk being conveyed in a truck marked TRE 897 BE, coming from Lagos en route Owo, Ondo state and heading to Kano.
