Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on patrol have intercepted a commercial vehicle ladened with explosives on Kaduna — Zaria expressway.
Spokesman for the anti narcotic Agency, Femi Babafemi said on Sunday in a statement that the vehicle was heading to Zamfara State from Nasarawa State when it was intercepted on May 3rd 2025 in Kaduna State.
A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of a total of Nine Hundred and Forty-Two (942) explosives concealed in a sack and the subsequent arrest of a 30-year-old suspect Nura Sani Muhammad (alias Nura Hariji).
Similarly, men of the NDLEA intercepted no fewer than three million five hundred thousand (3,500,000) pills of opioids and one hundred and sixty-three thousand (163,000) bottles of codeine syrup.
The street value of the consignment is over three billion, four hundred and twenty-eight million naira (N3,428,000,000.00) in Port Harcourt, Rivers state and Lagos State.
The bulk of the seizures: two million pills of tafrodol 225mg and 163,000 bottles of codeine syrup, was made on Tuesday 29th April 2025.
The feat was recorded during a joint examination of a watch-listed container by NDLEA officers, men of Customs Service and other security agencies at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers state.
NDLEA statement also said another syndicate to ship 104grams of tramadol and skunk concealed in bottles of body cream to Iraq through a courier company in Lagos was also thwarted on Monday 28th April by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI).
NDLEA also recorded breakthroughs in other similar raids carried out in some parts of Nigeria during the past week, made arrests and illicit drug seizures.
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