NDLEA intercepts N10.4bn drugs at Lagos port

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a large consignment of Canadian Loud, a high-potency strain of cannabis, weighing 4,173.5 kilograms with a value of N10,433,750,000 at the Tincan Island Port in Lagos State.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, said the interdiction of the illicit drug consignment followed painstaking intelligence gathering, sustained surveillance, and trailing of the container, which was transloaded several times since it left Toronto, Canada, on May 28.

Babafemi said the illicit drug was conveyed through rails to Montreal, where it was loaded on board a vessel, Jakarta express voyage, and arrived Tanger Med Port in Morocco on April 15.

He said the illicit drug was discharged and reloaded on another vessel, Osaka voyage, which eventually arrived the Lagos port on May 9, 2026.

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Babafemi noted that the over two months of monitoring the shipment by anti-narcotic officers culminated in the eventual seizure of the consignment on Tuesday, May 12, during a joint examination of the container by NDLEA operatives and other security agencies.

Babafemi disclosed that the illicit drug consignments from Canada were packed and concealed inside two vehicles, a used Ford Bus and a Mercedes Benz C300 car, stashed within the shipping container.

The development comes barely four days after NDLEA operatives raided a Lekki mansion used as stash house where 4,000 parcels of same psychoactive substance weighing 2,326 kilograms worth over N5,815,000,000 were recovered.