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Speaker 1: Men of the Nigeria National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ndl

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EA have uncovered illicit drugs of Canadian laud concealed inside

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chocolate tins in Lagos State after the illicit consignments were

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shipped into Nigeria from Canada through British airways and the

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Anti Illicit Drugs Security operatives also arrested a man who

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had over nine hundred and forty two bomb explosives inside

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his bag traveling from Nasarawa to Zamphar Estate. Ndl EA,

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in a news release made available on Sunday, said that

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three point four billion niras worth of opioids were seized

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in Lagos and Port Harcourt in Rivers States. The agency

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also arrested a suspect who was about to ship illicit

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drugs from Nigeria to Italy, a raq in body creams

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and a wanted drug kingpin after ten months in hiding.

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According to ndl EA, no fewer than three million, five

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hundred thousand, three million, five hundred thousand pills of opioids

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and one hundredhundred and sixty three thousand, one hundred and

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sixty three thousand bottles of codine syrup with combined streamed

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value of over three billion, four hundred and twenty eight

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million Nira three billion, four hundred and twenty eight million

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niras point tozero in port Harcourt, Rivers State and Lagos State.

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The bulk of the sieges two million pills of taffable

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two hundred and twenty five milligrams and one hundred and

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sixty three thousand bottles of codine syrup was made on Tuesday,

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the twenty ninth of April twenty twenty five, during a

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joint examination of a watch listed container by NDLA offices,

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men of Customs Service and other security agencies at the

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port Harcourt Courts Complex on a Rivers State in Lagos.

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A total of one million, five hundred thousand pills of

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a controlled opioid were recovered from a suspect A Larinwaju

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were had at the alabor Rago area of a Joe

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on Tuesday, the twenty ninth of April, while the st

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also of the consignment was traced to Q one zero

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four B Roague twenty five, Victoria Garden City, Lekki, which

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is the residence of Wanabinna Kenneth who is now at large. Meanwhile,

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ndl EA operatives at the import shed of the Mattala

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Mohammad International Airport mma A Keja, Lagos have intercepted forty

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two parcels of Canadian laud, a strong strain of cannabis

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weighing twenty kilograms concealed in tins of chocolate Milo Beveridge,

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white kidney beans and dark red kidney beans, packaged as

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part of cargoes that came into the Lagos airport on

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board a British Airways flight from Canada. At least three suspects,

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including the receiver of the consignment, montret Ewawonmi Lawson, have

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been arrested between Wednesday, the thirtieth of April and Saturday,

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the third of May. In like manner. A businessman, Bobby

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Morrisos’s was on Friday the second of May arrested at

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the Lagos Airport while attempting to border Turkish Airlines flight

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to Italy. A thorough search of his luggage led to

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the seizure of eight thousand, one hundred and thirty pills

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of tramadol two hundred and twenty five milligrams, two hundred

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milligrams and one hundred milligrams. Attempt by another syndicate to

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ship one hundred and four grams of tramadol and skunk

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concealed in bottles of body cream to Iraq through a

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courier company in Lagos was also thted on Monday, the

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twenty eighth of April by NDLA offices of the Directorate

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of Operations and General Investigation DOGI in Kaduna. NDLA operatives

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on patrol along Kaduna Zaria Expressway on Saturday, the third

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of May intercepted a commercial vehicle coming from Nasarawa State

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heading to Zamfara State. A search of the vehicle led

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to the discovery of a total of nine hundred and

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forty two nine hundred forty two explosives concealed in a

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sack and the subsequent arrest of a thirty year old suspect,

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Nurasani Mohammad alias Nurahari g Yirman, Chief Executive Officer of NDLA,

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Brigadier General Mohammad Baba Maawa Retired, has directed that the

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suspect and exhibits be transferred to the appropriate security agency

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for further action. Five members of a syndicate led by

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Aminu lusa Aka Kadagi were on Wednesday, the thirtieth of

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April arrested by ndl EA operatives at Dangoro Market, Karno,

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with fifty blocks of skunkwing twenty one point six kilograms

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recovered from them. In Edo State operatives acting on intelligence

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on Thursday, the first of May intercepted at Aromi Sen

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Northeast a white Toyota bus conveying assorted opioids from a

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Nicha a Nambra State heading Terauchi. Recovered from the vehicle

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include three hundred and fourteen thousand and twenty pills of tramadol, rofinol, diazepam, pixol,

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five six hundred and thirty eight bottles of codine syrup

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and two hundred amples of Pentezocene injection. Suspect there Adiemo

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was taken into custody. A Masda commercial bus marked XA

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three four three TSE was equally intercepted at agu Orca

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Junction Orca Namra State by ndl EA operatives on Wednesday,

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the thirtieth of April, while a total of fifty thousand,

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four hundred capsules of tramadol, five hundred tablets of cocodamol

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and three hundred amples of Pentezocene injection were recovered in

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the suspect Shindu Na arrested in Niger State. Ndl EA

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offices on patrol along Contegora Mokua Road on Saturday, the

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third of May intercepted Amtsubishi Kanta truck marked RBH one

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hundred and four Zeny. A search of the vehicle led

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to the recovery of five thousand, five hundred capsules of

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tramadol and two thousand, three hundred amples of pentezocene injection,

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as well as the arrest of a suspect, Yusuf Abubaka thirty.

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After ten months of painstaking investigation, ndl EA operatives on Saturday,

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the twenty sixth of April arrested a wanted drug kingpin,

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the fifty two year old managing director of Overdak International

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Limited Dominic, Chigozi Obgiak, who over his involvement in the

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importation of a consignment of two million, six hundred and

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sixteen thousand and sixty pills of tramadol two hundred and

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twenty five milligrams intercepted by ndl EA at a parper

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seaport in Lagos on the twenty eighth of July twenty

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twenty four. A follow up operation at his house in

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Lek led to the seizure of fifty one raps of

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Canadian loudweighing thirty four grams. The War Against Drug Abuse

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WADA social advocacy activities by NDLEEA Commands equally continued across

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the country in the past week. Some of them include

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WADA sensitization lecture delivered to students and staff of Alista

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gamer University, Carno and students and staff of Government Girls

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Junior Secondary School, Kankia, Katsina State, among others. While commending

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the offices and men of Dogi, m Mia, Legos, Krno PHPC, Kaduna,

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Anambra Edo Nijerona Poper commands of the agency for the

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arrests and sieges of the past week, Chairman Chief Executive

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Officer of NDLA, Brigadier General Mohammad Babamawa retired equally praised

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their counterparts in all the commands across the country for

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insuring a fair balance between the drugs supply reduction and

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drug demand reduction efforts. Stated as reported by Fermi Babafemi,

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Director Media and Advocacy ndl EA on Sunday, the fourth

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of May twenty twenty five, Edi quindi uini in a

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mor digital