NDLEA finds 201 kg of cannabis in a car on an Edo road
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.
🇳🇬 Auchi-Ibillo Road, Akoko Edo Local Government Area, Edo State · Nigeria
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency announced a set of cannabis
seizures across several states in a roundup published on 8 November 2026.[1]
In Edo State, operatives stopped a Volkswagen Golf saloon car loaded with 19
bags of cannabis weighing 201 kg on the Auchi-Ibillo Road in Akoko Edo Local
Government Area.[1]The roundup did not say whether anyone was arrested over
the car or charged.[1]Three other suspects were arrested in a raid on a drug
joint along Ihama Road in the GRA area of Benin City, the Edo State capital.[1]The three people arrested at the Ihama Road joint were Emmanuel Sunday, 25, Samuel Bala, 31, and Loveth Momodu, 20, found with quantities of Colorado, Loud and cannabis.[2]In Taraba State, three suspects were arrested with 283 blocks of compressed
cannabis weighing 226.255 kg during stop-and-search operations at the agency’s
checkpoint in Lankaviri, Yorro Local Government Area.[1]
It also reported 46 blocks of cannabis weighing 22.2 kg intercepted at courier
companies in Lagos on 3 November, packed in two cartons for shipment to the
United Kingdom.[1]Separately, officers raided a cannabis farm in Board
Forest, destroying a one-hectare plantation and recovering 242 kg of cannabis.[1]
NDLEA operatives intercepted a Volkswagen Golf saloon car loaded with 19 bags of cannabis weighing 201 kilograms along the Auchi-Ibillo Road in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area on Friday, November 6, 2026.[3]The operation led to the arrest of the driver, 39-year-old Abdulmumid Isah, and a passenger, 25-year-old Danako Godwin.[3][2]
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The roundup gives no date for the Auchi-Ibillo Road car seizure or the Benin City drug-joint raid; 8 November 2026, the publication date, stands in for the incident date.
The roundup does not say whether anyone was arrested, charged or tried over the 201 kg seized in the car.
The roundup does not say what happened to the suspects arrested in the Benin City drug-joint raid or whether cannabis was seized there.
The 201 kg is described only as cannabis in 19 bags, with no product detail or laboratory confirmation.
The roundup also reports the Ondo 1,818 kg and Board Forest farm raids, the Lagos 22.2 kg courier seizure, the airport 16.15 kg Loud seizure and the Taraba 226.255 kg checkpoint arrest, which are recorded in their own reports and kept out of this report's figures.
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.
NDLEA operatives at courier companies in Lagos intercepted 46 blocks of cannabis weighing 22.2 kg packed in two cartons bound for the United Kingdom on 3 November 2026. The agency announced the export seizure in a roundup of other operations and reported no arrest over the consignment.