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Speaker 1: Attempts by different groups of criminal suspects to ship quantities

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of cocaine and other illicit drugs to the United Arab

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Emirates UAE, United Kingdom, UK, Turkey, Australia among other countries,

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have been fted by men of the Nigeria Anti Illicit

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Drugs Police, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDL EA

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Justice the Security Operatives arrested a suspect, hegiofour Godwin Omeca,

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a fifty two year old businessman, who concealed one hundred

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and twenty seven raps of cocaine in his stomach private

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part while traveling from Bangkok, Thailand via Ethiopian Airlines. NDLA,

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in a statement made on Sunday, said that the bids

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by another set of criminal syndicates to ship two point

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six kilograms skunk in four hundred and twenty two grams

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tapented all two hundred and fifty milligrams concealed in tablets

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of black soap heading to Turkey, one hundred and sixty

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nine grams of cocaine hidden in ladies handbags going to Australia,

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and five hundred and sixty eight grams of laud, a

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strong strain of cannabis concealed in containers of herbs going

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to United Arab Emirates were forted by ndl EA operatives

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at some courier companies in Lagos. Ndl EA said its

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men also intercepted opioids, cocaine, skunk in sachets of alcoholic drinks,

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ladies bags, black soap tablets going to Europe, Australia, UAE,

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Turkey and South Africa. Details of the report reads verbatim below.

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A fifty two year old businessman Eggio for Godwin Omeca

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has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law

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Enforcement Agency ndl EA at the Malamominu Carno International Airport, Machia, Carlo,

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following which a total of one hundred and twenty seven

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wraps of cocaine concealed in his private part and stomach

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have been recovered after days under excretion Observation four, who

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operates boutiques in Lagos and a nisha An Amra State,

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was taken into NDLEA custody upon his arrival from Bangkok,

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Thailand via Ethiopian Airlines flight ET nine hundred and forty

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one on Wednesday, the eighth of October twenty twenty five,

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Following credible intelligence, he was taken for body scan, which

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confirmed he ingested illicit drugs and had some concealed in

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his private part. A total of fifty eight raps of

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cocaine were immediately recovered from his pant, after which he

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was taken for excretion observation, during which he ingested sixty

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nine pellets of cocaine in seven excretions, bringing the total

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number of raps of the class A drug recovered from

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him to one hundred and twenty seven weighing one point

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three eight eight kilograms. Three consignments of illicit drugs heading

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to the United Kingdom were on Thursday, ninth and Friday

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the tenth of October, intercepted at a courier company in

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Lagos by NDLEA Operatives. One of the shipments, one point

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seventy four kilograms of methamphetamine was recovered from blocks of

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glass ceramics, while another shipment contains one hundred and fourteen

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grams and one hundred and sixty eight grams of pentezocene

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and tramadol injections, respectively, just as the third consignment contains

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forty eight grams of tramadol capsules concealed in vitamin C

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container all going to the UK biz by another set

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of criminal syndicates to ship two point six kilograms skunk

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in four hundred and twenty two grams tapent to doll

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two hundred and fifty milligrams concealed in tablets of black

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soap heading to Turkey, one hundred and sixty nine grams

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of cocaine hidden in ladies handbags going to Australia, and

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five hundred and sixty eight grams of laud. A strong

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strain of cannabis concealed in containers of herbs going to

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United Arab Emirates were forted by ndl EA operatives at

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some courier companies in Lagos. Meanwhile, a total of twenty

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seven five hundred and ten pills of rowhil Noll concealed

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in sachets of alcoholic drinks going to South Africa have

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been intercepted by NDLEA offices at the export shed of

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the Mattala Mohammad International Airport m MIA p Keja, Lagos.

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After the initial arrest of a freight agent and a

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cab driver link to the shipment, a follow up operation

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at Oingbo market in Lagos led to the arrest of

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the mastermind, forty six year old Samuel Omarui alias Yellow.

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On the second of October. Same day, an Italy based

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businessman in his Ina, Augusta Nuyanwan, was arrested by operatives

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while attempting to export three thousand, seven hundred pills of

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tramadol two hundred and twenty five milligrams and two thousand,

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six hundred tabs of tapentadol two hundred milligrams hidden in

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food items to the European country. He claimed he was

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trafficking the opioids for someone else for a fee of

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nine hundred and forty five euros nine hundred and forty

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five euros in Edo State, A raid of the home

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of a suspect Emmanual Sunday thirty three at Bubekpaiek Perry

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in Mexico Central Local Government Area led to the recovery

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of forty seven kilograms skunk, a strain of cannabis. Two suspects,

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Neereniaoguo Mieloiodo forty eighth and Oladejo Taiwo fifty two, were

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on Wednesday, the eighth of October arrested at Omifofun Village

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five South Local Government Area Hosen State following the seizure

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of six hundred and thirty five kilograms of skunk from

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their Toyota hies Busmark DDA six five zen y two.

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Other suspects, Timothy Omawall forty one and Isaac Akiatan thirty six,

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were nowed at same location with one hundred kilograms skunk

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recovered from them along with their motorcycle, while Akorro Julius

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twenty Anomyegucci n w Ebo twenty five were arrested in

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different parts of Port Harcourt River State in connection with

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us the seizure of eight point five kilograms skunk. On

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Friday the tenth of October, Sulliman Klalu forty six was

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nabbed after twenty nine point five kilograms of saying substance

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was found in his house at baiannassty Jibia Town, Catsina

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State on Saturday, the eleventh of October. In Niger State

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NDLA offices on Wednesday the eighth of October arrested Ye

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Sir Daniel twenty nine, a new Bussa where twenty two

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thousand capsules of tramadol, eight hundred ampules of pentezocene injection

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and one hundred and fifty thousand pills of Exol five

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were seized from him. A total of three hundred and

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twelve kilograms skunk was recovered from a bushevology camp, Higblesse,

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Hondo State. While operatives on patrol along Beneen Lagos Expressway

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on Thursday, the ninth of October intercepted two suspects, Francis

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John thirty nine and Adayemi Taiwo forty six, in a

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car conveying one hundred than forty one point eight kilogram skunk.

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In Kaduna. A suspect, Rufai Ahmed twenty seven alias Farren Malam,

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was nabbed at Abuja, Kaduna tollgate while conveying one hundred

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and fifty thousand pills of Exol five from Lagos to Katsina.

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In like manner, commands and formations of the agency across

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the country continued their war against drug abuse WADA sensitization

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activities to schools, worship centers, workplaces and communities among others.

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In the past week. These include WADA Sensitization lecture to

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students and staff of General Mattala Mohammad College, Yola, Adamawa

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Assembly of God Secondary School, Abokliki, Abonyi Community Girls Secondary School, Bukori,

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Katsina Girls Secondary School, nenwe Orgu Local Government Area, Enugu

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Day Secondary School, Toungan, Malan, Pikorolocal Government Area, Niger, Sacred

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Heart Secondary School, Kabba, Coggie, Ebenezer Model Secondary School, Anisha,

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Anambra Government Secondary School, Borakiri, Rivers Government Junior Secondary School, Waklibauer,

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Ungogo Local Government Area, Karno and Baptist High School, id

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Osun State, among others. While commending the offices and men

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of m m I A Makia do og I, Karno, Edo, Rivers, Kaduna, Katsina, Niger,

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Ondo and Osun Commands of the agency for the arrests

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and sieges, Chairman Chief Executive Officer of n d l EA,

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Brigadier General Mohammad Baba Mawa retired urged them and their

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compatriots across the country to maintain their tenacity, professionalism and

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balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the agency.

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Femi Babafemi, Director Media and Advocacy ndl EA steted this

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on Sunday, the twelfth of October twenty twenty five. Posas

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one on Reddy bring in, you bring news in a

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mortgagicial way.