NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi dislclosed that operation took place on 1 January.
By Lot Sunday
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has successfully intercepted a consignment of the potent cannabis strain, Colorado, hidden in boxing kits at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos State.
NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi dislclosed that operation took place on 1 January.
Babafemi added that the consignment, weighing 1.80 kilograms, arrived on an Egypt Airlines flight marked as boxing kits via Cairo.
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Similarly, the agency operatives in Niger intercepted A J5 bus carrying 23 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 219.5kg from Ondo State to Zaria, Kaduna during a stop-and-search operation along the Suleja-Kaduna road.
Two suspects, Umar Musa, 26, and Isachiru Abubakar, were apprehended.
Also in separate incidents, a female trafficker, Queen Onyema, was arrested en route to Abuja with 12 compressed blocks of cannabis, while Mubarak Sani was nabbed in Kano with a substantial quantity of the psychoactive substance.
The agency further arrested four suspects with 60kg of cannabis during a crackdowns in Borno and Osun States.
