NDLEA recovers N10.3bn imported drugs at Lagos port

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have recovered 8,287 nylon bags of Canadian Loud weighing 4,143.5 kilograms with a worth over N10.3 billion at the Apapa seaport in Lagos State.

The illicit drugs were discovered in a container imported from Canada during a joint examination of the shipment by NDLEA officers, Nigeria Customs Service personnel, and other security agencies on Friday, July 10, 2026.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, July 12, said the discovery followed weeks of targeted tracking and monitoring of the shipment since its departure from Montreal, Canada, by operatives of the Maritime Intelligence Unit of the NDLEA in collaboration with the Apapa Strategic Command of the agency.

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Babafemi added that an attempt to export a 2.5kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, concealed in a gas compressor going to Cyprus through a courier company in Lagos, was thwarted by NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI).

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

Babafemi listed the activities to include WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of Nnodo Secondary School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State; Government Girls Secondary School, Sabon Gida, Sharada, Kano State; Royal Jesuit College, Agbado Ekiti; and Community Secondary School, Idofa, Ogun State; while the leadership of Zone 14 Command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy visit to Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital.