Man held with 216 kg of cannabis and seeds in Ekiti's Osin Forest
NDLEA operatives arrested a 53-year-old man at Osin Forest in Osin Ekiti, Ekiti State, on 5 November 2026 with 216 kilograms of cannabis and cannabis seeds. The agency announced the arrest in a roundup of raids across several states, also listing seizures in Lagos, Ondo, Edo, Delta and Taraba, issued on Sunday 8 November 2026.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agencyarrested a 53-year-old
man at Osin Forest in Osin Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday 5 November 2026.[1][2]Officers found 216 kilograms of cannabis and cannabis seeds with him.[3][2][4]
The arrest came as the agency’s commands pressed a week of raids and seizures
across Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Delta, Taraba and Enugu states.[1]NDLEA
Director of Media and Advocacy Femi Babafemi issued the account on Sunday 8
November 2026.[1][4]In the same statement the agency reported a separate haul of
750,000 Tapentadol tablets at Lagos airport, which are not cannabis.[5]
Ekiti State’s forests have been a recurring target for the agency, which
destroyed cannabis farms in the Igbara Odo and Ilawe Ekiti forests in October
2025.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No count is given for the cannabis seeds seized with the 216 kilograms, and the seeds are not included in the weight.
Neither account says where in Osin Forest the arrest was made, whether a farm was found, or what charges followed.
No plant count, acreage or street value was reported for the Ekiti seizure.
The 216 kilograms is described only as cannabis, with no product detail or laboratory confirmation.
The agency statement, The Eagle Online and Peoples Gazette carry the same NDLEA account, so they are not independent reporting.
Osin Ekiti, which local government records place in the Ifeloju area of Ekiti State, was not identified to a point, so the coordinates mark Ekiti State's centre and the precision is given as region.
The same statement reports other separate cannabis seizures in Lagos, Ondo, Edo, Taraba, Enugu and Delta states, which belong to their own reports.
The roundup's Enugu seizure of 44 blocks weighing 22.5 kg at the Eke Obinagu checkpoint on 3 November and Delta seizure of 10.54 kg of skunk with 9.4 kg of cannabis seeds at Ozoro on 31 October have no tracker report yet.
The Sun, The Eagle Online and Peoples Gazette copies of the same NDLEA statement are not independent reporting of the Ekiti arrest.
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.
NDLEA operatives arrested a 57-year-old man at a checkpoint in Eke Obinagu, Enugu State, on 3 November 2026 and found 44 blocks of cannabis weighing 22.5 kg. The arrest was listed in a nationwide roundup of seizures the agency announced on 9 November 2026.
