57-year-old held with 44 blocks of cannabis, 22.5 kg, at Enugu checkpoint
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.
Operatives of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agencyarrested a
57-year-old man, Celestine Uzochukwu Ejiakor, at a checkpoint in Eke Obinagu,
Enugu State, on 3 November 2026.[1]Officers found 44 blocks of cannabis
weighing 22.5 kg with him.[1]
The arrest was one of the cannabis results the agency announced together with
the airport cocaine case in a roundup published on 9 November 2026.[1]In the
same Enugu roundup, operatives at another checkpoint in Ugwuoba arrested a
40-year-old man with 24,000 capsules of tramadol weighing 13.4 kg and 697 g of
ketamine, which are not cannabis.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only one opened account of the Eke Obinagu arrest was available; the agency's own statement and Enugu local reporting could not be opened for this event.
The article does not say what happened to the suspect after arrest, whether he was charged or what court will hear the case.
The 22.5 kg is described as cannabis in blocks, with no laboratory confirmation or product detail.
The article gives no separate description of where in Enugu State the Eke Obinagu checkpoint stands, so the coordinates mark Enugu State's centre and the precision is region.
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 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.
