NDLEA Seizes Opioids, Codeine Syrups Worth ₦3.4bn In Lagos, Rivers
THECONSCIENCE report that Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have seized drugs with a street value of ₦3.428 billion in Lagos and Rivers states.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said the drugs include 3.5 million pills of opioids and 163,000 bottles of codeine syrups.
According to him, the codeine syrups were intercepted by NDLEA and customs officers on April 29 during a joint examination of a watch-listed container at the Port Harcourt ports complex, Onne, Rivers state.
Babafemi stated that 1,500,000 pills of a controlled opioid were recovered from a suspect identified as Olarenwaju Wahab at the Alaba-Rago area of Ojo on April 29, while the source of the consignment was traced to Q104B road 25, Victoria Garden City, Lekki, the residence of one Obinna Kenneth who is now at large.
The anti-narcotics agency also raided and confiscated other prohibited drugs across the country.
At the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos, NDLEA operatives intercepted 42 parcels of Canadian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 20kg, concealed in tins of chocolate, milo beverage, white kidney beans and dark red kidney beans.
He said the items were packaged as part of cargo into the Lagos airport onboard a British Airways flight from Canada.
N3.4billion worth of opioids seized in Lagos, PH as NDLEA uncovers drugs in chocolate tins
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have 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 with combined street value of 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 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.
In Lagos, a total of 1,500,000 pills of a controlled opioid were recovered from a suspect Olarenwaju Wahab at the Alaba-Rago area of Ojo on Tuesday 29th April while the source of the consignment was traced to Q104B Road 25, Victoria Garden City, Lekki, which is the residence of one Obinna Kenneth who is now at large.
and staff of Al-istigama University, Kano and students and staff of Government Girls Junior Secondary School, Kankia, Katsina state, among others.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, MMIA, Lagos, Kano, PHPC, Kaduna, Anambra, Edo, Niger and Apapa Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) equally praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for ensuring a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
Femi Babafemi
Director, Media & Advocacy
NDLEA Headquarters Abuja
Sunday 4th May 2025
