The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seized no fewer than 14,440kg of skunk and other illicit drugs in nationwide operations last week.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made the revelation in a statement he made available to newsmen.
In the statement on Sunday, Babafemi revealed that an attempt by a drug syndicate operating at Orita-Apeje, Araromi-Okeodo Forest Reserve, Ife South Local Government
Area of Osun State to load and distribute across the country large quantities of processed skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing a total of 11,135 kilograms, were thwarted on November 11, 2025 by NDLEA operatives.
This was after days of surveillance in the forest.
Two trucks being used to transport the illicit consignments: a Volvo truck marked WWR 29 XA and a Mercedes truck with registration number AWK 713 YZ, were seized and seven suspects arrested.
Those in custody in connection with the seizure are Lucky Abiodun, Julius Amos, Victor Ngbikili, Sunday Oduegwu, Ibrahim Akanni, Eze Godstime, and Fred Ifeanyichukwu.
A total of 1,902.1 kilograms of skunk were recovered in parts of Edo State.
While 184.1kg was recovered along a bush path at Oza/Igbanke Road, Igbanke in Orhionmwon LGA on November 13, 672kg was evacuated from Utese forest, Ovia North East LGA on November 14, with 494kg recovered from a Mercedes Benz car marked DE311BEN along Benin-Akure Road, where a suspect, Felix Edah, 45, was arrested the same day.
This was just as Lucky Abagha, 51, was nabbed in another Mercedes Benz car marked JJJ 56 JW conveying 552kg.
While four suspects: Micheal Okoh, Offor Agada, Raphael Nkemjika, and Nwabueze Franklin were arrested with 68kg skunk and 3.150kg methamphetamine along Ijebu-Ode Expressway in Ogun State, Danjuma Tukura, 50, was nabbed with 172kg skunk at Sunkani area of Ardo Kola LGA, Taraba State on November 14 and Wisdom Titus, 24, with 84kg of the same substance at Takum area of the state.
In Adamawa state, NDLEA operatives on November 14 recovered 396,000 capsules of tramadol from a suspect, Ahmed Isyaku Nda, 50, at Aliyu Mustapha International Airport, Yola, while 785kg of skunk was evacuated from the warehouse of a drug dealer currently at large at Asob Maraba Karu, Nasarawa State.
Two suspects: Jamiu Kunle Kardoso and Oriyomi Waliu, were on November 14 arrested with 130 pouches of Canadian Loud weighing 65.150kg in Surulere area of Lagos, just as Taofeek Moraina was nabbed the same day with 282 blocks of Ghana Loud with a gross weight of 141kg at Otto, Oyingbo area of Lagos.
In Kwara State, NDLEA operatives on November 13 intercepted a truck marked T- 0262KT along Ilorin-Jebba Expressway conveying 197 blocks of skunk weighing 78.565kg and 155 cartons of rubber solutions.
The truck driver, Umar Yakubu, was taken into custody.
In another operation, a commercial bus with registration number KJA – 657CY was intercepted at Eiyenkonrin, Ilorin on November 12 with 20 blocks of skunk concealed in a 50-litre jerry can recovered and the driver Ibrahim Bello arrested.
In like manner, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places, and communities among others in the past week.
These included WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Government Day Secondary School, Birnin Ruwa Gusau, Zamfara State; Holy Ghost Secondary School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State; Government Science Technical School, Ringim, Jigawa State; City Girls Secondary School, Enugu State; Randle Junior Secondary School, Surulere, Lagos State; and Anglican Girls Grammar School, Obalende, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State.
