Tag Archives: intercepts

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin-Can Island Command, has intercepted some arms and ammunition allegedly being smuggled into the country by a criminal gang.   The discovery were made during an inspection of consignments imported into the country.   The arms recovered were automatic single-barrel rifles and pump action guns. …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a 40-year-old businessman, Ejike Chibuke Solomon with 1.45 kilograms of cocaine concealed in his luggage while attempting to board an Ethiopia Airlines flight number 950 to Vietnam via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja. …

The Nigerian Navy operations in the Niger Delta region between January and February 2024 have led to the arrest and recovery of stolen crude oil from different criminal gangs operating in the region.   The recovered items are 60,815.77 barrels of crude oil worth about $5.218 million (N8.12bn); 557,580 litres …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has successfully dismantled and arrested members of an organized criminal organization which specializes in trafficking heroin across Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Europe and America in a 12-day well-coordinated operation leading to the seizure of the single largest consignment of heroin at the Murtala …

A Motor Tanker (MT) SAISNIL II has been arrested by operatives of Nigerian Navy Ship Ship (NNS) BEECROFT over an alleged involvement in crude oil theft.   Base Information Officer, Lieutenant Hussaini Ibrahim, said the vessel which has St. Vincent and Grenadines flag was suspected of illegality after it turned …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos on New Year’s Day, Monday, January 1, intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the US.     The consignment arrived in …

The Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT has arrested three stowaways aboard a Tanker Vessel FRONT Altiers at Lagos roadstead, bound for Europe.    The Commander, NNS Beecroft and Maritime Component Commander Of Operation Awatse, Commodore Kolawole Oguntuga, disclosed this in a statement signed by the base Information Officer, NNS Beecroft, Sub-Lieutenant …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Saturday 9th December 2023 intercepted at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, twelve (12) consignments of cocaine belonging to members of a Drug Trafficking Organisation.   A man, Augustine Justine Emeka, 44, who claims he deals in copper wire …

  Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 14 (Fourteen) suspected vote buyers in Otueke, Adawari playgrounds in Bayelsa State and at various polling units in Imo and Kogi States.   A statement from the antigraft agency says they were arrested on Saturday, November 11, 2023 …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two drug barons linked to consignments of cocaine and heroin buried in bellies of two traffickers heading to Paris, France and Doha, Qatar.  One of the suspects has been identified as Hakeem Babatunde Salami, the alleged arrowhead of “Tajudeen …