By Lateef Ibrahim
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has disclosed that it’s operatives have recovered 8,287 nylon bags of Canadian Loud weighing 4,143.5 kilograms, worth over N10.3 billion at the Apapa seaport in Lagos State.
This disclosure was made in a statement on Sunday by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in Abuja.
The discovery, the statement revealed, followed weeks of targeted tracking and monitoring of the shipment since its departure from Montreal, Canada, by operatives of the Maritime Intelligence Unit of the NDLEA in collaboration with the Apapa Strategic Command of the agency.
The illicit drugs, it added, were discovered in a container imported from Canada during a joint examination of the shipment by NDLEA officers, Nigeria Customs Service personnel, and other security agencies on Friday, July 10, 2026.
The statement by Babafemi added that an attempt to export a 2.5kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, concealed in a gas compressor going to Cyprus through a courier company in Lagos, was thwarted by NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI).
He further stated that the anti-drug agency continued its War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces, and communities, among others, in the past week.
Babafemi listed the activities to include WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of Nnodo Secondary School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State; Government Girls Secondary School, Sabon Gida, Sharada, Kano State; Royal Jesuit College, Agbado Ekiti; and Community Secondary School, Idofa, Ogun State; while the leadership of Zone 14 Command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy visit to Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
