Categories: EconomyNews

NDLEA Intercepts Kaduna-Bound Explosives

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have recovered no fewer than 399 pieces of improvised explosive devices, IEDs from one suspect along Mokwa-Jebba road on Thursday, September 7.

In his statement, the suspect said the explosives were handed to him at a park in Ibadan to be delivered to someone in Kaduna State.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement today in Abuja explained that the suspect and exhibits have since been transferred to the military authorities in Niger State.

In the same vein, operatives on Thursday 7th September raided the house of a suspect in Owan West LGA, Edo State, where they recovered 22 bags of skunk weighing 261.4kgs, while a 60-year-old grandma was arrested in the town same day with 17kgs of the same substance seized from her.

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives intercepted consignments of skunk concealed in tins of tomato paste and methamphetamine hidden in used clothes, meant for export to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

While the skunk in tomato pastes consignment weighing 20 kilograms was intercepted on Friday 8th September at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, the meth shipment with a gross weight of 1.60kg was seized at a courier company in Lagos

VOP Lagos

Recent Posts

Bail Revoked: Malami Family Back in Custody Over Alleged Money Laundering

A Federal High Court has revoked the bail earlier granted to former Attorney-General of the…

5 minutes ago

Forensic Experts Recover 105 Bodies from Yelwata Mass Graves as Probe into June 2025 Attack

Forensic specialists have recovered 105 bodies from mass graves in Yelwata, marking a significant development…

30 minutes ago

Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria Rejects Foreign Pressure Over Islamic Law

The Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN) has firmly dismissed reported calls by some…

1 hour ago

Adamawa Governor Fintiri Leads Mass Defection to APC

Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, the Governor of Adamawa State, has officially left the Peoples Democratic Party…

5 hours ago

Worker Killed as Soldiers Clash With Government Enforcement Team in Ogun State

Tragedy struck in Ogun State after a worker attached to the state’s planning authority was…

6 hours ago

Abaribe, Natasha, Ireti Snubbed as Tinubu Hosts Iftar at Aso Villa

President Bola Tinubu hosted a select group of senators for an Iftar dinner at the…

1 day ago