Lagos Dec. 7, 2025, The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives seized 7.6 million pills of tramadol,and 76,273 kilograms of different strains of cannabis including four states.
Mr Femi Babafemi, spokesman of the Agency said in a statement on Sunday that a sizeable quantity of tramadol were recovered from a whate house at Oko market, Asaba, Delta state on Saturday.
He said several members of the drug Trafficking organisation were arrested during the raids.
” No fewer than 1.2 million tablets of tramadol 225mg were seized from a suspect , on Wednesday 3rd December when NDLEA operatives on patrol at Orogwe, along Onitsha- Owerri road Imo state, intercepted his vehicle conveying the consignment which was loaded at Aba, Abia state, heading to Onitsha, Anambra state,” he said.
Babafemi said Officers of the Agency in Adamawa state on Dec.1, Intercepted a Toyota bus along Maraba-Mubi coming from Jos, Plateau state with a total of 588,113 capsules of tramadol and extol -5 tablets concealed in Jumbo bags.
According to him,operatives of a special operations unit of NDLEA stormed forests in Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti state where they destroyed 14,654 kilograms of skunk and arrested two suspects.
Babafemi stated that commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, sensitization activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among in the past week.
“These include: WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of St. Michael’s Academy, Sabon Gari, Kano; Harry Pass Secondary School, Masaje, Gboko LGA, Benue; and Community Junior Secondary School, Okuru-Ama, Obio/Akpor LGA, Rivers state, among others, he said.
