A 25-year-old pregnant woman, Haruna Favour, was arrested in Auchi, Edo state last Friday with 82 pinches of methamphetamine as well as various quantities of Loud, Arizona, Colorado variants of cannabis and codeine based cough syrup.

This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen by NDLEA Director Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.

The statement adds that in Gombe, One Hundred and Nineteen Thousand tablets and capsules of tramadol, D5 and Exol5 were recovered from two drug dealers, Nasiru Abubakar, 22, and Umaru Bayero a.k.a Hadiza when NDLEA operatives raided their stores at the Gombe main market last Tuesday.

In Kogi, a suspect, Paul Ali, 47, was arrested along Okene-Abuja highway with 1,404 bottles of Codeine based syrup weighing 190.94kg and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection coming from Onitsha to Sokoto. A follow up operation in Sokoto has also led to the arrest of the receiver of the consignment last Tuesday.
A raid at the cannabis plantation camp in Emure forest, Owo LGA, Ondo State has led to the arrest of Monday Onoja, 20; Daniel Kehinde, 25; and Obinna Okechukwu, 35, where sixteen bags of the illicit substance weighing 179.5kg were seized from them.
Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, retired Brigadier-General Buba Marwa in his reaction to the arrests and seizures, commended the officers and men of the Kogi, Edo, Ondo and Gombe Commands for their resilience.
He charged them and their compatriots in other commands to remain focussed and vigilant in their areas of responsibility.