NDLEA seizes 700 kg of cannabis hidden under fertiliser in Auchi trailer
NDLEA officers intercepted a trailer in Auchi, Edo State, on 24 March 2023 and found 69 bags of cannabis weighing 700 kg hidden under bags of fertiliser. The driver and his assistant were taken into custody; the fertiliser was bound for Funtua while the cannabis was to be dropped in Kaduna.
NDLEA officers intercepted a DAF trailer marked ZUR 378 XJ (Kebbi) in Auchi,
Etsako West local government area, on Friday 24 March 2023.[1][2]Hidden
under bags of fertiliser in the trailer were 69 bags of cannabis sativa
weighing 700 kg.[1][2]
The bags of fertiliser were to be delivered in Funtua, Katsina State, while
the cannabis consignment was to be dropped in Kaduna.[1][2]Both the driver
of the truck, Babangida Mande, and his assistant, Mandir Abdullahi, were taken
into custody.[1][2]The interception was announced by NDLEA spokesperson Femi
Babafemi in a statement issued on Sunday 26 March 2023 as part of a wider
roundup of the agency’s interceptions that week.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
NDLEA operatives stopped a car on the Auchi-Ibillo Road in Akoko Edo, Edo State, and seized 19 bags of cannabis weighing 201 kg in a roundup of cannabis seizures reported on 8 November 2026. The same roundup reported a Benin City drug-joint raid, three arrests at a Taraba checkpoint with 226.255 kg of compressed cannabis, and further raids in Ondo and Lagos.
NDLEA operatives recovered 1,818 kg of cannabis packed in 148 bags in a raid on Odofin Road, Uso, in Ondo State, destroyed a one-hectare cannabis farm in Board Forest and recovered a further 242 kg. Officers arrested 36-year-old Itoro Linus Akpan in operations reported on 8 November 2026.
NDLEA officers found 16.15 kg of Loud cannabis hidden in two wooden sofas from Houston at Lagos airport on 4 November 2026. A freight agent who came to clear the cargo and a caterer who came to collect it were arrested.
NDLEA officers at Lagos airport found 1.20 kilogrammes of cannabis in two of nine parcels hidden in cartons of snacks from the United Kingdom, and arrested a 51-year-old freight agent who came to clear them. The other seven parcels held chemicals for making synthetic cannabis, and a sting in late October 2026 led to a second arrest.