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Speaker 1: Nigeria authority has arrested two British citizens Midsir Jordan Alexander

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Tatundra and Adipe Andrew Addituan at Mattala Mohammad International Airport

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while trying to smuggle some quantities of illicit drugs into

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the West Africa country through Qatar. The British citizens were

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arrested a fortnight ago by the National Drug Law Enforcement

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Agency ndl EA alongside then Nigeria collaborators. Ndl EA, in

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a news release gave details about the report and other

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news of six point five billion nairas opioids intercepted in

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Lagos rivers ports as ndl EA also destroyed seventy seven

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thousand kilograms skunk in Cross river heado forests and recovered

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four thousand kilograms in Nasarawa. Stated as presented below, no

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fewer than six million pills of opioids, namely Tamil two

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hundred and twenty five milligrams taken to all two hundred

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and twenty five milligrams and Carriesopradol two hundred and twelve

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twenty five milligrams, as well as three hundred and thirty

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two thousand bottles of codine based cough syrup with a

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combined streaked value of six billion, five hundred and twenty

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four million Nira. Six billion, five hundred and twenty four

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million niras point too, have been intercepted by operatives of

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the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLA at the Port

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Harcourt Ports Complex on A Rivers and the Apaper Seaport, Lagos.

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The sieges of the Apaper and on A Ports followed

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intelligence and tracking of new trafficking routes to ship illicit

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substances into Nigeria by drug cartels, which necessitated the watch

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listing of the containers for one hundred percent examination the

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consignments at the Port Harcourt Ports, six million pills of

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opioids and one hundred and sixty two thousand bottles of

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codeine syrup were uncovered in two containers on Monday nineteenth

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and Tuesday the twentieth of May twenty twenty five. During

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a joint examination of the shipments by NDL EA offices

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with men of the Nigeria Customs and other security agencies

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at the Apapa Port in Lagos, a total of one

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hundred and seventy thousand bottles of codine syrup were discovered

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in a watch listed container by ndl EA operatives during

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a similar joint examination exercise on Thursday, the twenty second

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of May. Meanwhile, two British nationals Mitsir Jordan, Alexander Taitundra

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and Adpe Andrew Addijuan, as well as two Nigerians Chinoo

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Oluasiinamole and a few o my Omikaro iover may have

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been arrested by ndl EA operatives for attempting to smuggle

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into Nigeria ninety two bags of laud, a strong strain

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of cannabis weighing fifty one point one ho kilograms through

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the Matala Mohammad International Airport m MIA, a Keja, Lagos.

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Alexander was intercepted with the consignment upon his arrival at

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the MMIA on a Qatar Airline flight from Doha based

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on processed intelligence on Thursday, the fifteenth of May. He

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was allowed to pass through the security control unhindered and

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closely monitored by ndl EA operatives to the car park

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where the owner of the cargo, Adip Andrew Addijuan, who

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is a Nigerian British, was waiting in an suv along

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with his relation Chinowo Oluasia Amole and the driver of

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the vehicle, a fuomer Omikaro Iobami to receive the courier.

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The ndl EA operatives tracking them, however, swooped on him

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as they attempted to drive out of the airport car park,

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arresting them with the drug exhibits in the vehicle. In

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his statement, Alexander confessed he was recruited during his vacation

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weeks ago while he was promised one thousand, three hundred

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British pans. After a successful delivery of the consignment in Lagos,

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the arrowhead of the syndicate, Adip Andrew Adijuan, confessed that

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he arrived in Nigeria a day earlier from South Africa

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through Ghana. A follower operation at their apartment in LeKi

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led to more discoveries. At the point of his arrest,

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ninety three thousand nairas and seventeen thousand, two hundred South

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African rand were recovered from him, while a search of

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his LeKi apartment led to the seizure of three million,

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eight hundred and ten thousand, five hundred narra, three million,

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eight hundred and ten thousand, five hundred nyarras cash, an

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apple laptop, an iPhone, fourteen Promax and four Laughing Gas

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nitro oxide canisters. A total of seventy five thousand kilograms

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of skunk were destroyed on thirty hectares of cannabis farms

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by ndl EA operatives at Asoko Dot Village in Odikpany

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Local Government Area, Cross River State, where two hundred kilograms

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of same substance was recovered on Wednesday the twenty second

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of May, while one thousand, nine hundred and fifty seven

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point five kilograms of the same psychoactive plant was destroyed

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at Ohosu Forest Ovia south West Local Government Area and

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okous Community forest Own West Local Government Area, Heado State

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on Friday twenty third and Saturday the twenty fourth of May.

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In Nasarawa State, two suspects Sunday Daniel fifty one and

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Abu Peter thirty were arrested at Kefi by ndl EA

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operatives on Saturday the twenty fourth of May, when four

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thousand kilograms of skunk were discovered concealed under unprocessed would

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in their lorry, while another suspect, Godwin Obi thirty nine,

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was nabbed at Karu with one hundred and fifty four

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point five kilograms of same substance on Wednesday, the twenty

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first of May. In Kaduna, ndl EA operatives on patrol

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along Kaduna Zaria Expressway at Guagua Jay on Wednesday, the

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twenty first of May intercepted twenty two year old Muhammad

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Hamsa with fifty seven thousand, seven hundred and fifty pills

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of tramadol and diazepam, while same day, their counterparts in

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Bauchi arrested with Sman Mohammad forty five along Bauchi Masao

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Road with eighty blocks of skunk weighing forty five kilograms. Similarly,

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operatives on stop and search operations along Petiscam Damatury Road,

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Yobe State intercepted fifty five parcels of Colorado weighing two kilograms,

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which are suspect. Adam Mohammad twenty nine was attempting to

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smuggle into the Republic of Chad through Nambaro Ngala border

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town in Borno State. In Niger State, ndl EA operatives

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on patrol along Lockwood Jebber Road on Thursday, the twenty

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second of May intercepted a Mercedes Benz car marked f

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ST nine hundred and thirty eight foo loaded with two

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hundred and thirty five blocks of compressed cannabis sativa weighing

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ninety seven kilograms and arrested a suspect, Adams Abercrow. This

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is even as operatives in Legos raided the Esapa London

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area of LeKi where they arrested a suspect Jonathan Iso

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with different quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, molly roe, hipnol, codine,

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cannabis and nitrous oxide, while another raid at Idison Eleko Abeju,

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LeKi on Saturday, the twenty fourth of May led to

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the arrest of Olamileka Nadau and seizure of forty eight

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kilogram skunk. The War against Drug Abuse WADA social advocacy

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activities by ndl EA commands equally continued across the country

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in the past week. Some of them include WADA Sensitization

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lecture delivered to students and staff of Adamu Babel Government

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Secondary School, dimokol Katsina mary Hanni Secondary School oron aquabam

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Nado Secondary School, Abukiliki Aboni Government Secondary School, guyuk Adamawa

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and Government Girls Islamic Secondary School Guaguawa, Krno Wal Legos

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State Command of ndl e A paid Wada advocacy visit

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to the Sarkan Fulani of Legos, alhajimah hammadou Bambardo, among others,

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while commending the offices and men of phpc mmia A,

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Papa Nasarawa, Cross River Edo, Lagos, Niger, Kaduna, Yobey and

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Bauchi commands of the agency for the arrests and sieges

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

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Brigadier General Mohammad Bababawa Retired, praised their counterparts in all

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the commands across the country for insuring a fair balance

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between the drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.

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Femi Babafemi, Director Media and Advocacy NDLEA stated on Sunday,

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the twenty fifth of May twenty twenty five, Quindi Quini

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in