The Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has destroyed a 71.5-hectare hashish farm in Taraba State, yielding 178,750 kilograms of skunk.
This was revealed in a press release issued on Sunday, August 31, 2025, by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja.
“…a 30-year-old Alfa Andrew was taken into custody following the destruction of 178, 750 kilograms of skunk on his 71.5 hectares of hashish farm in Mayodoga forest, Sardauna native council space of Taraba state,” the assertion learn
He was discovered with a Dane gun when NDLEA operatives, supported by the Nigerian Military, Nigeria Forest Safety Service, Mambila Youth Vanguard, and Vigilante teams, stormed the hashish farm on Tuesday, twenty sixth August.
Raid in Anambra
The company revealed {that a} 75-year-old grandpa Uchelue Ikechukwu was amongst six suspects arrested with illicit substances in raids by operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) in elements of Anambra state.
Uchelue was arrested at Umudioka, Dunukofia Native Authorities Space, with 26.7kg of skunk on Thursday, twenty eighth August 2025.
Others arrested in Anambra embody Eneh Makuo; Emmanuel Chiemeli; Uwakwe Matthew; Chukwujekwu Ehirim; Ifeanyichukwu Olisa and Odoh Chukwuma,” discovered with numerous portions of opioids and skunk in Nkwelle and Amichi areas.
NDLEA operatives on the Abuja/Kaduna tollgate intercepted 104,900 capsules of tramadol hidden within the driver’s compartment of a gas tanker suspected to be heading to insurgents in Borno. The seizure was made on Friday, twenty ninth August, and the suspect, Hassan Buba, was arrested.
On Saturday, thirtieth August, one other suspect, Kabir Sulaiman (45), was arrested with 34.150kg of skunk at Gwargwaje – Zaria checkpoint.
Arrest of main opioid
The NDLEA confirmed that in an interdiction operation on Saturday thirtieth August, a serious provider of illicit opioids in Borno state, 33-year-old Uchenna Umeh, was arrested shortly after he acquired his provides from Onitsha, Anambra state.
Recovered from his Maiduguri house have been 30,640 capsules of tramadol 225mg, 7,940 rohypnol tablets, and N7,999,200 in money, primarily in N200 notes.
- In Nasarawa State, NDLEA officers arrested Abubakar Dauda (36) with 79,040 capsules of tramadol and diazepam at Abacha Park, Mararaba Karu, on Thursday, twenty eighth August.
- On Tuesday, twenty sixth August, Babangida Tungura (47) was arrested in Lafia with 30,410 tramadol and rohypnol capsules in addition to 38 bottles of codeine syrup hid in a freezer transported from Asaba, Delta State.
- In Adamawa, Mohammed Ali (23) was arrested on Wednesday, twenty seventh August, after his consignment of 15,000 tramadol capsules hidden in sacks of animal feed was intercepted at Gombe Mega Park.
- One other suspect, Hamisu Abdullahi, was additionally arrested on Monday, twenty fifth August, after NDLEA operatives discovered 79 blocks of skunk weighing 58kg hid in sacks of pepper in a automotive intercepted alongside Mararraba Lamurde.
Seizures in Kano and Edo
In Kano, NDLEA officers arrested Ashiru Garba (20) and Aminu Abdu (22) with 1.5kg of skunk and 25,000 capsules of exol-5 alongside Kano-Hadeja highway on Tuesday, twenty sixth August.
Two different suspects, Ali Muhammad (37) and Muhammad Maishanu (42), have been arrested on Thursday, twenty eighth August, with 8,080 bottles of a New Psychoactive Substance and 25.7kg skunk alongside Zaria-Kano Highway, Gadan Tamburawa.
One other main seizure in Zango space, Ungogo LGA, Kano, led to the restoration of 250,000 exol-5 tablets from Alhasaan Musa (25) on Saturday, thirtieth August.
In Edo State, NDLEA intercepted 64,250 capsules of opioids, largely tramadol, in a business bus touring from Onitsha to Okene alongside Ewu-Auchi highway, Etsako West LGA. Mohammed Halidu (36) was arrested.
Extra particulars
Two suspects, Elves Odogwu (45) and David Jeremiah (35), have been arrested in Ondo State on Wednesday, twenty seventh August, after NDLEA raided Queen Elizabeth, Aponmun Reserved Camp, the place 117.5kg of processed hashish and seeds have been recovered.
In Lagos, a suspect, Michael Ayodele, was arrested in Mushin with 164kg of skunk on Saturday, thirtieth August.
In Ekiti, NDLEA described the seizure as the only largest seizure of Loud and Colorado, two robust strains of hashish, in Ekiti State.” The operation on Friday, twenty ninth August, led to the restoration of 5.3kg of Loud and Colorado and a couple of.5 grams of Methamphetamine from Ajayi Ayodeji Idowu (a.okay.a Atiku), a 42-year-old drug kingpin in Ado-Ekiti.