NDLEA burns 1.4m kg of cannabis in record 1.6m kg drug destruction in Ogun
The NDLEA publicly burned about 1.6 million kilogrammes of seized drugs at Ipara in Ogun State on 12 April 2025, its largest single destruction, including 1.4 million kilogrammes of cannabis from Lagos, Ogun and Oyo commands. The agency said the exhibits were destroyed with court approval after laboratory tests and closed cases.
🇳🇬 Ipara, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State · Nigeria
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) publicly destroyed about 1.6 million kilogrammes of seized drugs at Ipara, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State, on 12 April 2025, the largest volume it has burned at one time.[1][2]Cannabis made up the bulk at 1.4 million kilogrammes, alongside 123kg of cocaine, 46.8kg of heroin, 148,000kg of codeine syrup, 3,244.26kg of tramadol, 1,544kg of skuchies and 111kg of methamphetamine.[1][2]
Agency spokesman Femi Babafemi said the destruction covered seizures by commands under Zone 9 and Zone 11, including Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, the Murtala Muhammed airport, seaports and the Idiroko and Seme border posts.[1][2]Chairman Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, represented by Director of Assets and Financial Investigation Ibrahim Abdul, said each consignment passed laboratory tests and was destroyed with court approval after its case closed.[1][2]Marwa warned traffickers there would be no safe haven and noted the agency had convicted 10,572 offenders in four years.[1][2]
Case data
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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.
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.