The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dismantled an industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory in Ebonyi State and arrested a Mexican national it identified as an alleged drug kingpin. The operation has exposed what the agency says is a wider transnational drug network in Nigeria. The suspect, Arturo Carrera Loaiza, was arrested on August 19 at…
The NAFDAC alcohol ban in Nigeria has taken on a new dimension after the agency’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, linked excessive alcohol consumption to banditry and other social problems. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, Adeyeye said alcohol damages organs including the brain, kidneys and liver and argued that it also encourages banditry….
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s latest destruction of cannabis farms in Edo State has reopened an argument Nigeria has struggled with for years: is the country destroying an illegal drug problem, or destroying a potential legal industry before it has decided what that industry could become? On August 17, NDLEA operatives destroyed two cannabis…
The trial over what authorities describe as Nigeria’s largest clandestine methamphetamine laboratory took a dramatic turn on Wednesday as the Federal High Court physically inspected the sprawling facility hidden inside a remote forest in Mowe, Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State. The visit came as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intensified…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intensified its crackdown on drug trafficking, arresting multiple suspects across Nigeria after uncovering cocaine and other illicit drugs concealed in fake plantains, beverage cartons and modified vehicle fuel tanks. One of the most high-profile arrests involved a 67-year-old Nigerian-British woman, identified as Mary Yetunde Barek, who was…
