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NDLEA Intercepts Cannabis Concealed As Tea From Thailand Into Nigeria
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NDLEA Intercepts Cannabis Concealed As Tea From Thailand Into Nigeria
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#NDLEA #Thailand #edo #Lagos #Nigeria ©June 8th, 2025 ®June 8, 2025 3:29 pm Men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have intercepted parcels of loud, a strong strain of cannabis concealed as green tea, shipped from Thailand via the United Arab Emirates, UAE into Nigeria. #OsazuwaAkonedo
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Men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have intercepted parcels of loud,
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a strong strain of cannabis concealed as green tea, shipped from Thailand via the United Arab
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Emirates, UAE into Nigeria. NDLEA in a news statement on Sunday, said the agency has been
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monitoring the shipment of the illicit consignments for weeks through based on the credible intelligence
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it received before the interception of the goods at Matala Muhammad International Airport
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in Lagos State. NDLEA in the statement also stated that its men arrested two young ladies
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with over 108 kilograms skunk, loud, Colorado and meth in Edo State. Details of the report
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reads verbatim below, no fewer than 66 parcels of loud, a strong strain of cannabis, packaged
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as green tea have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,
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NDLEA, at the import shed of the Matala Muhammad International Airport, MMIA, Akeja Lagos.
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The seizure made on Thursday 5 June 2025 was based on credible intelligence received ahead
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of the arrival of the consignment at the cargo wing of the airport on 11 May. The NDLEA had
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watchlisted the shipment, and sustained surveillance around it for over three weeks before inviting
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other stakeholders for a joint examination last Thursday. The loud consignment weighing 62.20
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kilograms was concealed inside wraps of green tea that came from Thailand via UAE on an Emirate
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Airlines flight. In another operation in Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Monday the 2nd of June intercepted
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a consignment of 1,665 kilograms skunk, a strain of cannabis, along Leki Aja Expressway. Two suspects,
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Godardo Abdul Rasaki Yinde and Abanda Olufemi were promptly arrested in connection with the seizure.
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In Kaduna, operatives of the State Command of NDLEA on patrol along Abuja. Kaduna Expressway on Tuesday
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the 3rd of June arrested 29-year-old Goodluck Nimeca with 612 bottles of codeine-based syrup and 2970
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pills of Flunitrazapam. In another operation same day, a 52-year-old wanted drug dealer Kabiru Moussa,
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aka KB, was arrested at Kerman Mashi. A total of 25.7 kilograms skunk was earlier recovered from his base.
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While a total of 9 kilograms loud was recovered from the spare tire compartment of an Audi station
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wagon car marked triple A 975 Zoo driven by Atari Israel, 45, along Ouchie Road, Edo State,
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two young ladies, Faber Joy and Joy Igwe were on Tuesday the 3rd of June nabbed at Ikpoba Hill
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area of Benin City. Recovered from them include 106.57 kilograms skunk, 1 kilogram loud, 800 grams
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Colorado and 302 grams of methamphetamine. The war against drug abuse, WADA, social advocacy
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activities by NDLEA commands equally continued across the country in the past week. Some of them include,
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WADA sensitization lecture delivered to students and staff of Sosman Nagogo College of Arabic and
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Islamic Studies, Katsina, Fountain of Knowledge International Academy, Abukaliki, Abonyi, Professor
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Ayo Ita Municipal Model Primary School, Calabar, Cross River, Millennium High School, Egbeda, Lagos,
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and Community Secondary School, Achida Anaroka, Anambra. While Zone 13 command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy
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visit to the Amayanabo of Nembe Kingdom, Drive. Edmund Dakaru, Mingi Shi, in Nembe, Bielsa State,
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among others. While commending the offices and men of MMIA, Lagos, Kaduna, and Edo commands of the agency
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for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA,
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Brigadier General Mohamed Baba Mawar, retired, also praised their counterparts in all the commands
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across the country for pursuing a fair balance between the drug supply reduction and drug demand
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reduction efforts, Femi Baba Femi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA reported on Sunday the 8th of June 2025.
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Gnome Mawar, retired, was at the University of Okewaran,
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a tick-to-art program at the University of Ohio State University.
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Gnome Mawar, retired, experienced with the University of Iowa State University.
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