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Speaker 1: Men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLA have

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uncovered cocaine and opioid concealed in prayer beads scheduled to

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be transported to the United States, Italy, Poland and Saudi Arabia.

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Ndl EA, in a news release on Sunday, said the

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agency during raids arrested two suspects recovers large consignments of skunk, heroin,

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opioids in Carno, Quara, Kaduna, Turabba, Harbia, Osin and FCT.

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According to the statement, desperate bids by some drug trafficking

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organizations dto to move illicit consignments such as cocaine, tramadol, laud,

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molly and others concealed in prayer beads, packs of board games,

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female cloths to the United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Italy,

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Poland and United Arab Emirates through logistics firms and the

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Lagos Airport have been forted by operatives of the National

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Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLA. At least two suspects behind

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some of the aborted missions at the Matala Mohammad International

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Airport m mi IA Perkeja Legos have already been arrested.

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One of them is a forty three year old businesswoman,

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jackpaw Eguerme, who was nabbed at the gate see Departure

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hall of the Lagos Airport while attempting to board an

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Air France flight to Italy on Saturday, the eighth of

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March twenty twenty five, when she was searched. One hundred

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and ninety parcels of tramadol two hundred and twenty five

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milligrams and another parcel of skunk a strain of cannabis

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were recovered from her luggage. In her statement, she claimed

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that she bought the drugs herself with the intention to

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resell them in Italy. At the export shed of the

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Lagos Airport ENDLA offices on Tuesday, the eleventh of March

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arrested a sixty year old suspect, Yehaya Fattailer, while attempting

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to ship a cargo containing cloths used to con seal

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four hundred grams of skunk going to New York, United

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States of America at some logistics companies in Lagos, efforts

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by drug traffickers to export over two kilograms of laud

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molly tramadol three hundred and sixty five milligrams. Two hundred

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and twenty five milligrams hidden in vitamin C bottles and

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female cloths to the US were frustrated by ndl EA

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operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation DOGI.

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Other shipments of two hundred and thirty grams of cocaine

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concealed in prayer beads, soles of locally made shoes, and

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packs of board games heading to Saudi Arabia, Poland and

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u AE were equally intercepted between Monday tenth and Wednesday

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the twelfth of March. In Krno, a total of seven

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hundred and twenty seven blocks of compressed skunk weighing four

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hundred and seventy nine kilograms were recovered from a forty

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year old suspect, Hassan Haruna, who was arrested by ndl EA.

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Hi Is a Chlawa area of the state on Wednesday

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the twelfth of March, while no fewer than fifty eight thousand,

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three hundred pills of tramadol were intercepted along Kaba Obajana Highway,

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Koggi State in a commercial bus coming from legos en Rue,

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Tabooja on Tuesday, the eleventh of March. Raid operations in Kachia,

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Kaduna State on Thursday, the thirteenth of March led to

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the arrest of Idrashamsa twenty one with four thousand, nine

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hundred pills of tramadol two hundred and twenty five milligrams

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seized from him, just as a similar exercise in Heyen

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Banky area of Kaduna North Local Government Area on Friday

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the fourteenth of March resulted in the arrest of twenty

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five year old Aminumagaji, from whom two thousand, nine hundred

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tablets of tramadol two hundred and twenty five milligrams were recovered,

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while a total of forty thousand, two hundred tablets of

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tramadol two hundred and twenty five milligrams were recovered from

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the duo of Olawoko Farrik and a Keen Ridwan along

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a Lauren Jebber Expressway, Bo Sadu, Kuara State on Friday

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the fourteenth of March. ENDLAA operatives equally seized twenty one thousand,

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seven hundred capsules of same opioid from a suspect Selisusmann

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along Ayinkor and Expressway a laur and on Thursday, the

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thirteenth of March in Taraba State ndl EA offices on

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Friday the fourteenth of March arrested polycar ADEKU thirty five

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at bent Road, Komi Local Government Area with fifteen point

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seven seven kilograms skunk, while in Osun State operatives on

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Thursday the thirteenth of March intercepted a commercial bus marked

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SGB five hundred and sixty four East coming from Damota,

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Legos Island in front of King University, Odomu with a

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total of forty eight point seven kilograms Garanaan Laud, Colorado

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and Canadian Laud, all strains of cannabis. Not less than

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nine suspects have been arrested in connection with the the

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seizure in Asogo and our Life during follow up operations,

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A fifty eight year old suspect, addiesen Aka Pasta was

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on Tuesday the eleventh of March arrested along Guagualada Expressway

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FCT Abuja with twenty seven thousand, eight hundred pills of

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tramadol two hundred twenty five milligrams, while another suspect of

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Sman Mohammad twenty six was nabbed same day with various

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quantities of skunk and cocaine and Hussey’s own three area

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of Abuja in Via State. NDLA operatives on Saturday, the

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fifteenth of March raided the Intiga community Isiala nguan Or

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Local Government area, where a thirty four year old suspect,

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Chinazarin Wogu aka Young Money, was arrested with two hundred

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seventy four grams of heroin, one hundred forty one grams

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of methamphetamine, two point nine three one kilograms of cannabis sitiva,

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four grams of cocaine and seven hundred fifty three thousand

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fifteen naira seven hundred and fifty three thousand and fifteen

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niras point o monetary exhibit. Meanwhile, commands and formations of

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the agency across the country continued their war against drug

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abuse WADA sensitization activities to schools, worship centers, workplaces and

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communities among others. In the past week. These include WADA

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Enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Upe School, Ilara Eppa,

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Lagos Government Day Secondary School, jig Lambou Michika, Adamawa State,

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Agbegie High Grammar School, Daquina, Coggi State, Capital City Secondary

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School ORCA Anambra State and s O of a Comprehensive

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High School her Coroakitty her Kitty State, among others. While

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commending the offices and men of m mi IA, Neogi, KRNO, Kwara, Kaduna, Taraba,

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Aaba and FCT commands of the Agency for the arrests

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and sieges, Chairman Chief Executive Officer of NDLA, Brigadier General

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Mohammad Babamawa Retired stated that their operational successes and those

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of their compatriots across the country, especially their balanced approach

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to drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts, are

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well appreciated. Stated by Femi Babafemi, Director Media and Advocacy

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NDLA on Sunday, the sixteenth of March twenty twenty five,

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Ledi Grigi Ni in the Mortgages l