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Speaker 1: Men of Nigeria Anti Illicit Drugs Police National Drug Law

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Enforcement Agency ndl EA have raided a hotel in Lagos State,

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a major commercial city in Nigeria, and recovered over one

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point zero four to two billion lyra’s worth of Canadian

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laud a strong strain of cannabis at the eighty rooms

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hotel building and arrested three suspects in connection with the

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illicit drugs. Ndl EA during the week also arrested a

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sixty year old woman with cannabis in Carlo State. The

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anti illicit Drugs security operatives in addition intercepted over two

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million pills of tramadol in Carlo, Jigawa another Saudi bound

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cocaine in body cream arrests three gun En ladies for

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cross border trafficking. According to NDLEA news releases, an eighty

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room new hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, used as cover

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for distributing illicit substances, has been raided by operatives of

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the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLA, who, after hours

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of combing the rooms, recovered five hundred and eighty nine

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bags of Canadian laud a strong strain of cannabis with

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a total weight of four hundred and seventeen point three

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kilograms worth one billion, forty two million, five hundred thousand,

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narrow only in street value. At least three suspects, Sie

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two O, Fuoku, Samuel and Emmanuel Amme were arrested in

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the course of the operation at the five story hotel

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building between Friday twenty fifth and Saturday the twenty sixth

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of April twenty twenty five, while two other suspects, Noble

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Philip and his partner Kenneth, are currently at large. Items

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suspected to be proceeds of illicit drug trade recovered from

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the premises housing the Hook Hotel, also known as Caesar

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Hotel and Caesar Lounge, located at sixteen Waziri Ibrahem Street

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off else Femipiers Street, Victoria, Island. Lagos include Toyota Prado

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land Cruzegi, Legos AKD four hundred and seven seventy two

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was Toyota Ciena Vehicle Legos KJA seventy nine HJ, Volkswagen

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Delivery Van Lagos Triple A five hundred and twenty five

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shire Kia Serantocar Legos BDG eight hundred and sixty GQ

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Grand Caravan, Dodge legos at eight hundred and forty seven

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YF seventy four new TV sets, ten US TV sets

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and thirteen refrigerators, among others. In another major interdiction in

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Jagawa State, with a follow up operation in Carno, NDLAA

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operators acting on intelligence on Wednesday, the twenty third of

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April seased consignments of opioids being moved from Carno to

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Nijer Republic and Yobe State through Jagawa. The psychoactive substances

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were being moved in a Toyota Siena vehicle marked ABJ

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one hundred and eighty two NW at about two thirty

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am on Wednesdale Long Carno Ringham Road, Gumeltown, when anti

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narcotic offices on patrol intercepted them, with two suspects aber

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Ibrahem twenty eight and shuabu Uma twenty nine arrested. Recovered

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from the Siena vehicle were two hundred thousand pills of

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tramidol two hundred and fifty milligrams and two hundred and

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seventeen thousand, five hundred capsules of pregamelon. A swift follow

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up operation in Karno led to the arrest of the supplier,

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forty one year old Jammalubahammad, at his residents located at

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Miltara Lay in technical area of Carno, Wile additional one million,

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five hundred and eighty four thousand pills of tramadol two

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hundred and fifty milligrams stacked inside a Nissan eighteen seat

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bus marked DAL three hundred and seventy two XA and

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a room in his house were discovered and evacuated. This

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brings the total number of the recovered opioids to two million,

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one thousand, five hundred pills. Barely a week after NDLA,

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offices of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation do

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OGI uncovered twenty parcels of cocaine concealed inside religious books

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going to Saudi Arabia at a logistics company in Lagos.

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The operatives have again intercepted another shipment of forty six

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wraps of cocaine weighing five hundred and forty seven grams

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hidden in body cream going to the Middle East country.

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The seizure was made on Wednesday, the twenty third of

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April at a courier firm in Lagos. Another consignment intercepted

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same day, include one point eight kilograms pentezocene injection and

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sixty grams bromazepim tablets heading to Canada at the semi

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border area of Badagri, Lagos. Three gun en ladies were

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on Sunday, the twentieth of April arrested at the g

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Bar G checkpoint by ndl EA operatives while attempting to

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smuggle combine four point eight kilograms of garan allowed a

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strong strain of cannabis into Nigeria. The suspects arrested include

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hases A Zubairo forty two, Samarad Mustafa forty three and

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Jamilah Salifu twenty six. In Carno, a sixty year old grandma,

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Sofia Shamsu was on Friday, the twenty fifth of April

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nab at Samagu area of Comboso Local Government Area with

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five point six kilograms skunk, a strain of cannabis, while

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another suspect, Montari Labyrin thirty five, was taken into custody

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following the seizure of one hundred liters of codine syrup

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from him and Yelwey area of Dala Local Government Area.

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A total of three thousand, eight hundred and fourteen point

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nine kilograms skunk was destroyed on two farms in Abodu

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Community over a northeast Local Government Area, Heado State. On Thursday,

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the twenty fourth of April, wen ndl EA operatives raided

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the plantations where three suspects, Samuel Sampson twenty six, Daniel

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Peter twenty and Abel Eddar thirty one were arrested. The

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War Against Drug Abuse WADA social advocacy activities by a

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ndl EA commands equally continued across the country in the

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past week. Some of them include WADA Sensitization lecture delivered

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to students and staff of dan Doro Community Arabic Secondary School, Doro, Katsina,

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Saint James Anglican School, Badria, Keve, Federal Government Girls College,

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Tambul Sokoto and members of Aganiu Age Grade Anisha Anambra,

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while the Lagos States Strategic Command of ndl E a

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pane WADA advocacy visit to the Ayingburan of Ikiodo, him Ober,

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Kabir andwal Shotobi, among others, while commending the offices and

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men of Dogi, Legos, Karno, Jigawa, Edo and Seme commands

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of the agency for the arrests and sieges of the

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past week. Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of ndl EA, Brigadier

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General Mohammad Baba Maawa retired equally praised their counterparts in

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all the command across the country for ensuring a fair

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balance between the drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.

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Reported as made available by Fermi Babbafemi, Director Media and Advocacy,

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nd l EA quendin you renise in a mort digital way.