China, Italy-bound cocaine concealed in mortar, backpack intercepted
by The Eagle Online · The Eagle OnlineOperatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted consignments of cocaine concealed in local mortar and false bottom of a backpack packaged for shipment to China and Italy respectively through a logistics company in Lagos State.
The seizures were made by operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigations (DOGI) of the NDLEA on Thursday.
They include 250grams of cocaine factory fitted into the base of a local mortar packed in a carton for export to China, and 500grams of the same class A drug hidden in the false bottom of a backpack being shipped to Italy.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Rivers State have arrested a 38-year-old notorious drug dealer, Ugo Gift Okonkwo, at Eagle Island in Port Harcourt, following credible intelligence.
The suspect was nabbed with various quantities of cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, swinol, tramadol, and codeine syrup at the time of his arrest on July 26, 2026.
NDLEA officers on a stop and search operation at DMGS Roundabout, Onitsha, Anambra State on July 27 intercepted a truck marked XK 131 BDG loaded with 26,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 3,960kg while the truck driver Chinedu Nwanze, 40, was arrested.
While 331.84 kilograms of skunk were recovered from a Toyota Sienna bus with registration number KUJ 26 DV along Kwale/Ughelli Expressway, Delta State on July 26, NDLEA officers in Nasarawa State on July 28 arrested a 64-year-old man, Joseph Nwaeke, with 68kg skunk and 29grams of methamphetamine at Asso Angwan Muazu, Karu area of the state.
In Zamfara State, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Zaria-Gusau Highway on July 27 intercepted a suspect, Sani Umar, 27, conveying 7,400 pills of tramadol 225mg suspected to be supplies for criminal elements.
With the same vigour, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, work places, and communities among others in the past week.
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These included WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Hausawa Special Primary School, Kano, Kano State; Royal Crown School, Oluyole, Ibadan, Oyo State; Government Secondary School, Ibi, Taraba State; and drivers at Challenge Bus Terminal Park, Ibadan, Oyo State.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, Rivers, Anambra, Delta, Nasarawa, and Zamfara States Commands for the various successful operations, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.), enjoined them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the Agency.
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