30-year-old held with 10.54 kg of skunk and 9.4 kg of seeds at Ozoro
NDLEA operatives arrested a 30-year-old suspect at Ozoro in Delta State's Isoko North Local Government Area on 31 October 2026 with 10.54 kilograms of skunk and 9.4 kilograms of cannabis seeds. The arrest was announced in a nationwide roundup of cannabis seizures and arrests issued by the agency on 8 November 2026.
🇳🇬 Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State · Nigeria
NDLEA operatives arrested a 30-year-old suspect at Ozoro in Isoko North Local
Government Area of Delta State on Saturday, October 31, 2026.[1]Officers
recovered 10.54 kilograms of skunk, a potent cannabis product, and 9.4 kilograms
of cannabis seeds at the arrest.[1]The same arrest also produced 4.3 grams of
methamphetamine, which is not cannabis and is left out of the cannabis figures.[1]
The arrest was one of several cannabis operations the National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) reported in a statement issued by its Director of
Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, November 8, 2026.[1]The same
statement covered seizures and arrests at Lagos airport, at courier companies
and at cannabis farms across several states.[1]NDLEA chairman Brigadier
General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.) commended officers of the Delta command among
others and urged them to keep up the agency’s drug supply and demand reduction
work.[1]
In a separate Delta State case, another suspect was arrested at Upper Agbarho in
the Ughelli area on November 4 with quantities of skunk and other drugs but no
stated weight for the skunk.[1]The roundup’s headline case, a Ugandan woman
caught at Lagos airport with 87 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.15 kilograms, is not
cannabis and is left out of this report.[1]
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Only one account of the Ozoro arrest was opened, the NDLEA statement as reported by Wion; no independent outlet or the agency's own page was opened for it.
The statement gives no charges, court date or outcome for the man arrested at Ozoro.
The 10.54 kg of skunk and the 9.4 kg of seeds are reported as cannabis without a stated laboratory confirmation, and no count is given for the seeds beyond their weight.
The statement does not say where in Ozoro the arrest was made, whether the drugs were stored for sale, or how they were packaged.
The article also lists a separate Delta arrest at Upper Agbarho on 4 November with unspecified quantities of skunk and other drugs; because no skunk weight is given, that event is not part of this report's figures and is left for its own report.
Troops of Operation Enduring Peace arrested three suspected drug dealers at Maraba Jama'a in Jos South, Plateau State, and recovered substances suspected to be cannabis and other illicit drugs. The three were held in military custody pending possible handover to law enforcement agencies for investigation and prosecution.
Nigeria's NDLEA in Edo State said its October 2026 operations arrested 75 suspected traffickers and seized 2,492.7 kg of cannabis, including 702.83 kg found in a car at Otuo. The command also said it destroyed eight cannabis farms covering 5.73 hectares.
NDLEA officers arrested three men at the Lankaviri checkpoint in Yorro, Taraba State, with 283 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing 226.255 kg. The suspects were held with separate consignments ranging from 47 to 156 blocks.
NDLEA operatives arrested a 32-year-old man at Marine Beach in Apapa, Lagos, on 6 November 2026 and found 6.07 kg of cannabis in a small store inside the sitting room of his apartment. The seizure was announced with opioids, tramadol, pregabalin and codeine recovered in the same search.
