By Joe Udo LAGOS (CONVERSEER) – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered and dismantled a social media network used to distribute illicit substances packaged as imported Christmas cookies and snacks, with two masterminds arrested and taken into custody after a raid on their hideout in the Lekki area of Lagos….
By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar has dismissed a preliminary objection by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seeking to strike out a N500 million defamation suit filed against it by a sales representative of Drugfield Pharmaceuticals, Prince Fajulugbe Adeshola Temitayo. The ruling was delivered…
By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Cross River State Command, Morrison Ogbonna, has been found dead in his hotel room in Calabar. Converseer gathered that Ogbonna was found dead on Thursday, 18th September 2025, by his officers, who came to pick him up for a…
By Joe Udo ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – A 75-year-old grandpa Uchelue was among six suspects arrested with illicit substances in raids by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in parts of Anambra state just as 30-year-old Alfa Andrew was taken into custody following the destruction of 178,750 kilogrammes of skunk on his 71.5…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has disclosed the top five Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Cross River State with the highest marijuana (Indian hemp or cannabis) cultivation.
LAGOS (CONVERSEER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a significant drug shipment disguised as green tea, alongside a series of nationwide crackdowns resulting in multiple arrests and major drug seizures. The agency on June 5, 2025, seized 66 parcels of Loud – a potent strain of cannabis – disguised as green…
OKRIKA (CONVERSEER) – A high-tension wire from an electric pole has killed one pregnant woman, a staff of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and four other people in Okrika, Rivers State. According to The Nation, the incident happened at about 1:12 AM on Monday. The high-voltage wire cut and fell on a residential…
A cocaine consignment consisting of 20 parcels with a total weight of 500grams and buried in the pages of the religious books was uncovered at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday 15th April 2025 when NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) were searching through export cargos going to Saudi…
CALABAR – Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have seized over 659 units of illicit drugs worth N18 million in Cross River State. The breakthrough was made by the Cross River/Calabar Free Trade Zone and Akwa Ibom Area of the NCS, who, in turn, handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)…
In a near-death experience, a 59-year-old businessman Chijioke Nnanna Igbokwe underwent a surgery, exploratory laparotomy, to let out 57 out of 81 pellets of cocaine stuck in his stomach seven days after he ingested the illicit substance in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Igbokwe was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at…
