NDLEA nabs drug dealer, bandits’ supplier in Rivers, Zamfara

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 38-year-old notorious drug dealer, Ugo Gift Okonkwo, at Eagle Island Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this via a statement issued on Sunday, August 2, 2026.

Babafemi said Okonkwo was apprehended following credible intelligence, adding that the suspect was nabbed with various quantities of cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, swinol, tramadol, and codeine syrup at the time of his arrest on July 26.

Babafemi added that NDLEA officers on a stop-and-search operation at DMGS roundabout, Onitsha in Anambra State, intercepted a truck loaded with 26,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 3,960kg while the truck driver, 40-year-old Chinedu Nwanze, was arrested on July 27.

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He revealed that the anti-narcotic operatives on patrol along Zaria-Gusau highway in Zamfara State, on July 27, intercepted a 27-year-old suspect, Sani Umar, conveying 7,400 pills of tramadol 225mg suspected to be supplies for bandits.

Babafemi said the anti-drug agency continued its War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, workplaces, and communities, among others, in the past week.

The NDLEA spokesman listed the activities to include WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Hausawa Special Primary School, Kano State; Royal Crown School, Oluyole, Ibadan in Oyo State; Government Secondary School, Ibi, Taraba State; and drivers at Challenge Bus Terminal Park, Ibadan, Oyo State; among others.