70-year-old jailed 30 months for growing cannabis on six acres in Ibadan
A Federal High Court in Ibadan sentenced 70-year-old Fidelis Igedi on 25 February 2025 to 30 months in a correctional centre for cultivating six acres of cannabis. He pleaded guilty; NDLEA officers had arrested him on the plantation in August 2024 with 7.3 kg of dried cannabis.
A Federal High Court in Ibadan sentenced 70-year-old Fidelis Igedi to a total
of 30 months in a correctional centre for cultivating six acres (about 2.43
hectares) of cannabis sativa.[1]
Justice N.E. Maha convicted him on the evidence of the National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and his guilty plea, imposing 15 months on each of
two counts to run concurrently from his arrest.[1]
NDLEA prosecutor Daniel Otunla told the court that Igedi was arrested on 13
August 2024 in a bush in Oluyole Local Government Area of Ibadan, where
operatives found him on the six-acre plantation with a white sack holding 7.3
kg of the dried substance.[1]
The charges were unlawful cultivation and dealing under sections 19(A) and (C)
of the NDLEA Act, which prescribes up to life imprisonment.[1]The judge said
she tempered the sentence because of Igedi’s age, ill health and first-offender
status and warned that a return to the trade would not be spared.[1]
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Justice Akintayo Aluko jailed businesswoman Jumoke Akinusi for 18 months, or a 500,000 naira fine, after she pleaded guilty to exporting 1.10 kilograms of cannabis to Cape Verde. The NDLEA said she sent the drug through Murtala Muhammed International Airport on 14 August 2026.
An estate agent, Salami Abideen Jide, pleaded guilty on 15 October 2026 at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, to procuring and importing 32.2 kilograms of cannabis sativa from Canada, and was and the judge sentenced him to six years in prison, with the option of a six million naira fine.
Charged 1Prison six years (reported as three years on each of two counts, running concurrently)Fine NGN 6,000,000
A Federal High Court in Lagos sentenced 60-year-old Chinese woman Ting Hong Kiong to two years in prison after she pleaded guilty to importing 31 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa. The judge ordered the term to run from her arrest at Murtala Muhammed International Airport on 17 May 2026, and the court imposed no option of a fine.
On 17 March 2026 Justice M.N. Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Kano sentenced Jonathan Nuhu, 45, of Kanke in Plateau State, to 15 years for unlawful possession of cannabis. NDLEA had arrested him on 20 July 2023 near Wudil Bridge with 116 bags; he was already on bail from a 2021 Jigawa sentence for a similar offence.