A consignment of 32 items of improvised explosive gadgets (IEDs), has been seized by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Niger state.
In an announcement on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, stated the intercepted explosives had been headed for camps of bandits within the state.
He added that one Musa Muhammadu was caught with the IEDs on May 22, and the Suspect was transferred to the army for additional investigation.
NDLEA stated its operatives additionally seized 379 grams of methamphetamine at a courier firm in Lagos.
The consignment was heading for Cyprus and was hid within the false backside of six black cleaning soap containers, packed in a carton containing native hand followers.
The company added that one Ndawai Emma Ngalou, a Cameroonian, was apprehended “with a pair of Nigerian Army camouflage uniforms” alongside Michika-Bazza street in Adamawa.
The suspect was additionally caught with “two automated teller machine (ATM) cards belonging to Turaki Mohammed and Ekene Izuegunam”.
“Two ladies: Bilkisu Yusuf, 33, and Kauna Katsina, 25, were on Monday, May 22 arrested in Ningi town, Bauchi state, with 11,080 pills of tramadol, while Uche Shadrach, 22, was arrested with 20,480 pills of the same pharmaceutical opioid on Wednesday, May 24 along Okene-Lokoja highway, Kogi state on his way from Onitsha, Anambra state to Minna, Niger state,” the assertion reads.
“In the identical vein, two suspects: Surajo Adamu and Muhammad Ali, had been arrested on Friday, May 26, with 379,200 tablets of Diazepam within the Alimosho space of Lagos, whereas the MMIA Command of the Agency took custody of twenty-two cartons of Tramadol 225mg weighing 1,144.30 kg and 12 cartons of Tramadol 120mg with a complete weight of 320kg, all containing 2, 317, 400 tablets transferred to the company by the Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, on Thursday, May 25.
“In Delta state, NDLEA operatives supported by males drawn from the Nigerian Army. NSCDC and the Police on Wednesday, May 24, raided the infamous Abbi city, Ndokwa West LGA, the place three suspects: Eunice Eneh, 52, Animan Ifeoma, 26, and Chuks Webema Dennis, 35, had been arrested with a complete of 343.9kg hashish recovered from them.
“A similar mop-up operation in Bayelsa has led to the arrest of a wanted suspect, Ozoemena Egbochue, 38, at the Swali market in Yenagoa on Monday, May 22, following the earlier arrest of his sales boy, Morgan Eredeowel, with 11,748 pills of tramadol and diazepam.”
