NDLEA Intercepts 942 Explosives Bound For Zamfara
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives on patrol have intercepted a commercial vehicle ladened with explosives on the Kaduna — Zaria highway.
The interception occured on Saturday, May 3, 2025, according to the
Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi.
He said today in a statement that the vehicle was heading to Zamfara State from Nasarawa State when it was intercepted in Kaduna State.
He said that a search of the vehicle led to the discovery of a total of Nine Hundred and Forty-Two (942) explosives concealed in a sack and the subsequent arrest of a 30-year-old suspect Nura Sani Muhammad (alias Nura Hariji).
Babafemi gave no further details on the incident or what further action the agency had taken regarding the shock find
Similarly, men of the NDLEA intercepted no fewer than three million five hundred thousand (3,500,000) pills of opioids and one hundred and sixty-three thousand (163,000) bottles of codeine syrup.
The street value of the consignment is over three billion, four hundred and twenty-eight million naira (N3,428,000,000.00) in Port Harcourt, Rivers state and Lagos State.
The bulk of the seizures: two million pills of tafrodol 225mg and 163,000 bottles of codeine syrup, was made on Tuesday April 29, 2025.
Babafemi said the feat was recorded during a joint examination of a watch-listed container by NDLEA officers, men of the Nigeria Customs Service and other security agencies at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers State.
The NDLEA statement also said the effort by another syndicate to ship 104grams of tramadol and skunk concealed in bottles of body cream to Iraq through a courier company in Lagos was also thwarted on Monday, April 28 by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI).
According to him, the NDLEA also recorded breakthroughs in other similar raids carried out in some parts of Nigeria during the past week, made arrests and illicit drug seizures
