Drugs – City Business News

October 25, 2025 No Responses

PTML Customs Generates ₦350b In Nine Months, Impounds ₦200m Unregistered Drugs

Customs Area Controller, Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Joe Anani, the has announced sum of ₦350,347,173,787.92 from January to September, 2025 as revenue collected in the first nine months of the yearSpeaking...

October 25, 2025 No Responses

Tincan Island Customs Impounds N5.3b Illicit Drugs

The Nigeria Customs Service, Tin Can Island Port Command, has announced the interception of two containers laden with motor vehicles used to conceal significant quantities of illicit drugs. The Command made the disclosure during a press briefing held at its...

June 16, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts N1.1b codeine

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 157,800 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Port Harcourt Ports, Onne, Rivers.The shipment has an estimated street value of over ₦1.1 billion, according to a statement released on Sunday in Abuja...

March 10, 2025 No Responses

NAFDAC Destroys N100b Counterfeit Drugs

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed counterfeit drugs worth N100billion at the Moniya dump site in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State. According to NAFDAC Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, th...

February 23, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Arrests Thai lady At Lagos Airport

Alleged attempt by a 24-year-old Thai lady, Ms. Pattaphi Wimonnat, to smuggle 43 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 46.60 kilograms into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos has been thw...

December 26, 2024 No Responses

Four Drug Lords Forfeit VGC Houses, N67m, $50,000

Four drug kingpins arrested in connection with the historic seizure of 2,139.55 kilograms of cocaine at an Ikorodu residential estate in 2022, have been convicted by a Federal High Court, Lagos, presided over by Justice Yellim Bogoro who sentenced them...

November 6, 2024 No Responses

NDLEA Arrests 38 Suspects, Seizes 226kg Of Drugs

The Niger State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has reported significant progress in its fight against drug trafficking and abuse within the state. According to a statement issued by the Niger State Commandant of the NDLEA,...

October 13, 2024 No Responses

NDLEA Impounds N3.1b Heroin At Lagos Airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos have arrested a Thailand returnee, Oguejiofor Nnaemeka Simon peter, for importing 13.30 kilograms of heroin worth over N3.192 billion.Thi...

September 26, 2023 No Responses

Customs Intercepts Hard Drugs, IED Materials, Others Worth N1.6b

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ’C’ has intercepted cannabis sativa, raw materials for production of explosive devices, as well as other contraband with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) N1.6b. The Zone also arrested nine (9) suspects in.....

September 11, 2023 No Responses

NDLEA Impounds Meth, Skunk Consignments At Lagos Airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted consignments of skunk concealed in tomato paste tins and methamphetamine hidden in used clothes. The hard drugs were meant for export to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. A statement by the...

August 29, 2023 No Responses

Customs Impounds N550 Drugs At Tin Can Port, Rejects $54,300 Bribe

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)Tin-Can Island Port command, Apapa, Lagos, has detained two suspects for allegedly importing N550million worth of banned drugs. Briefing Journalists in Lagos on Monday, Customs Area Controller, Adekunle Oloyede, explained&...

July 17, 2023 No Responses

NDLEA Arrests Europe-Bound Student With Drugs

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a teenage student, Benjamin Nnamani Daberechi, 19, with Methamphetamine drugs concealed inside crayfish. In a statement on Sunday, NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi explained that Daberechi ...

April 5, 2023 No Responses

Stakeholders Task Pharmaceutical Firm On Patent Right For HIV, Hepatitis Drugs

Stakeholders on Tuesday demanded an open license for the generic production of HIV and hepatitis C drugs to allow low- and middle-income countries access to lifesaving drugs. They made the call at a news briefing organised by AIDS HealthCare Foundati...

March 6, 2023 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts 778,190 Pills Of Tramadol, Others

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has Intercepted 778,190 pills of pharmaceutical opioids including tramadol from suspects in Taraba and other states. Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday explained that...