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NDLEA Intercepts Indian Lady With 72 Parcels Of Heroin ON n Chocolate Wraps

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA said on Sunday that its operatives intercepted a 42-year-old Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano, with 72 parcels of heroin factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said, “The class A drug consignment weighing a total of 11 kilograms was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search.”

He said this “followed processed credible intelligence during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand, via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano airport on Friday, March 14th, 2025.

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“The arrest of Neetu signifies a growing attempt by drug trafficking organisations to hire white ladies and foreign nationals to move illicit drugs through the Nigerian borders.”

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Babafemi said that hiring foreigners by cartels to smuggle Illicit drugs is a bid that vigilant NDLEA operatives have consistently frustrated with the aid of modern technological tools and proactive intelligence, as laid out by Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd).

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In another interdiction operation in Kano, NDLEA officers on Thursday, March 20th, arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Michael Ogundele, with a 50-litre steel gas cylinder at Gadar Tamburawa, along Zaria- Kano road.

Based on credible intelligence, welding tools were later used to cut the giant cylinder, after which 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg concealed in it were extracted.

Sunday Ogar, 40, was nabbed at the Gunduwawa area of Kano on Wednesday, March 19th, with a 27kg skunk, a strain of cannabis.

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A female suspect, Khadijah Abdullahi, 40, was arrested with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup at the Lungun Bulala Yalwa area of the state on Tuesday, March 18th.

In Lagos, the duo of Olumuyiwa Kolawole and Samod Adisa were nabbed with 67.5kg skunk in Mushin, just as 100.8kg of the same psychoactive substance was recovered from the store of two fleeing suspects in the Anifowoshe area.

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Isah Idris was arrested in Apapa with a 4.5kg skunk, 600 grams of tramadol 225mg, and 30 liters of codeine syrup on Tuesday, March 18th.

Another suspect, Yahaya Mohamed, was arrested the same day in the Ikotun area of the state with different quantities of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

READ ALSO: NDLEA Intercepts UK-bound Cannabis Hidden In Duvet At Lagos Airport, Arrests Two

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Across the country, NDLEA Commands and formations continued to intensify their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) social advocacy sensitization engagements in schools, markets, motor parts, workplaces and worship centres in the past week.

These include: WADA sensitization lecture to students and staff of Chrisland School, Ikeja, Lagos; Hakimi Secondary School, Mokwa, Niger state; Marist Comprehensive College, Nteje, Anambra state; Ikole City College, Ikole Ekiti, Ekiti state; Government Day Secondary School, Sunane, Sokoto state; and Government Day Secondary School, Jada, Adamawa state, among others.

Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) commended the officers and men of MAKIA, Lagos, and Kano Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures.

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He noted with satisfaction the balance in drug supply and demand reduction efforts of all the formations nationwide, even as he charged them not to relent.

 

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Auto-crash Claims 2 Lives On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

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The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE, on Friday confirmed that two people died in a lone accident around Oremeji Bus Stop on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The Corps’ spokesperson, Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta.

Akinbiyi said the accident, involving a Mazda bus with registration number YNF 414 XN, occurred at about 1:30 a.m.

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He explained that the two occupants of the vehicle, the driver and conductor, both adult males, died on the spot, adding that no injury was recorded.

According to him, eyewitnesses said the bus lost control due to speeding, hit a road barrier, and somersaulted.

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Akinbiyi further said the vehicle, which was conveying live chicks, had been towed by the Ibafo Motor Traffic Division of the Police for further investigation.

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He added that the remains of the victims had been deposited at the Divine Touch Hospital morgue in Ibafo by operatives of TRACE, the police, and the Ogun State Emergency Services (OGSAES).

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He noted that traffic was briefly affected during the rescue operation but was later restored through the efforts of TRACE and the police.

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Court Sentences Man To Death For Killing Son

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The Kano State High Court has sentenced Abubakar Alhaji Sabo to death by hanging after finding him guilty of killing his newborn son.

The Kano State Government prosecuted Sabo before the court on charges of culpable homicide and causing grievous harm.

He was accused of force-feeding the infant with a local insecticide known as ‘fiya-fiya’, resulting in the child’s death.

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Sabo killed the baby after the mother, his girlfriend, refused to obey his instruction to kill the child to avoid the shame of fathering a child out of wedlock.

Following the incident, he was also found guilty of striking the girlfriend’s father on the head with a brick after he caught Sabo poisoning the baby.

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During the trial, the prosecution counsel, Barrister Safiya Yalwati Yahaya, presented three witnesses, while the defendant testified in his own defence.

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After reviewing the evidence presented by both parties, Justice Aisha Yau, who presided over the case, found him guilty of infanticide and sentenced him to death by hanging.

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The court also imposed an additional three-year prison sentence for causing grievous harm.

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Nine Kwara Victims: Kidnappers Insist On N300m Ransom

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No progress has been recorded on the bandits demand for N300m ransom for the release of nine victims abducted in Adanla community of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara state on Boxing Day, December 26, 2025.

Coordinator of the Joint Security Watch for Kwara South Senatorial District, Zubair Olaitan, disclosed this on Wednesday.

According to DAILY POST, the bandits have so far made three contacts with the community leaders that “if the N300m is not paid, the victims will not be released.”

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The bandits seized the nine victims in an attempt to abduct the King of the community, and his wife on Boxing Day, but failed.

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The King, David Olarinoye, was away to Igbaja town for a programme when the armed bandits invaded his community.

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The bandits, however, later seized nine other victims in the community and marched them to the bush.

While seven victims were abducted at the palace of the King, two others were captured on their way to the bush.

Following the abduction, the bandits demanded a N300m for the release of the abducted victims, resisting any negotiations for reduction of the ransom.

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