NDLEA arrests Ibadan man after 197.8 kg cannabis seized at his home
NDLEA officers who seized 197.8 kg of cannabis sativa from Fajana Dada Oluwaseyi’s house in Ibadan on 16 September 2026 arrested the 41-year-old on 19 October in Adamasingba after he had initially escaped the first raid.
On 16 September 2026 NDLEA officers seized197.8 kg of cannabis sativa from the home of
41-year-old Fajana Dada Oluwaseyi in Ibadan, Oyo State, but he escaped arrest at that time,
the agency said in a 25 October 2026 statement.[1][2]
On Monday 19 October 2026 operatives arrested him in the Adamasingba area of Ibadan after
further work on the case, according to the same release summarised by NigeriaUpdates.[1][2]
Chairman Mohamed Buba Marwa commended the commands involved in the wider October enforcement
drive; the statement did not report any court appearance for Oluwaseyi.[1]
Case data
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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.
