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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted over 3.1 million opioid pills in Kano, Kogi, Abia, Lagos, Ogun and Borno respectively.<\/p>\n

A statement by the NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, in Abuja, said the operatives had raided some parts of the named states in the past week.<\/p>\n

Babafemi said operatives in Ogun on Thursday, February 29 recovered 169kg consignment of cannabis abandoned in a truck at Sagamu tollgate.<\/p>\n

He said their counterparts in Lagos seized 25 cartons of tramadol containing 325,000 pills in Ikeja the previous day, Wednesday, February 28.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same day, a suspect, Abdullahi Khalil, 42, was arrested and 2,745,000 capsules of pregabalin were recovered from him at Singer market, Sabon Gari area of Kano State.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was handed over to the Kano State command of the NDLEA by the Department of State Security Services, DSS, \u201che said.<\/p>\n

Also, the 243 Recce Battalion, Nigerian Army, Badagry, on Saturday, March 2 transferred 27 sacks of cannabis sativa weighing 1,110kg, recovered at a coastal community, Ajido by soldiers, to the Seme Special Area Command of NDLEA.<\/p>\n

\u201cA suspect, Hassan Muhammad, 34, was on Saturday, March 2, arrested with 44,950 pills of tramadol at the Moranti area of Borno, by the NDLEA operatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Abia, NDLEA operatives on Thursday, February 29 raided a drug joint at Cemetery Barracks, Aba, where Ifeanyi Uche, 37, was arrested with different quantities of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother raid was carried out at the abandoned Enyimba Hotel, Ogbor Hill, Aba, where illicit substances were seized and the suspects arrested on Friday, March 1, \u201che added.<\/p>\n

In another development, in Kogi, NDLEA officers on a stop and search operation along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Friday, March 1, intercepted a commercial bus marked GRM 347XA (Borno).<\/p>\n

Babafemi said the bus was conveying 28 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa (Indian hemp) weighing 11kg.<\/p>\n

Also, 100 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup and 500 tablets of diazepam, all concealed in three plastic drums covered with cattle fats, heading to Jos, Plateau, were intercepted by the officials of the NDLEA.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted over 3.1 million opioid pills in Kano, Kogi, Abia, Lagos, Ogun and Borno respectively. A statement by the NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, in Abuja, said the operatives had raided some parts of the named states in the past week. 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