4.8 tonnes of cannabis seized at Ajah with three arrested
NDLEA officers intercepted a truck and a bus carrying 113 jumbo bags of cannabis weighing 4,802.84 kg around the VGC estate area of Ajah, Lagos, on 11 December 2022, arresting three suspects. The cannabis seizure was announced alongside the agency's interdiction of 1.76 million opioid pills hidden in noodle packs.
NDLEA officers in Lagos intercepted a truck and a bus conveying 113 jumbo bags
of cannabis sativa weighing 4,802.84 kg around the VGC estate area of Ajah on
Sunday 11 December 2022.[1][2]Three suspects, Taofeek Yusuf, Ifeanyi Okorie
and Israel Nwachukwu, were arrested in connection with the seizure.[1][2]
Agency spokesman Femi Babafemi announced the seizure in a Sunday statement that
mostly covered a separate haul of not less than 1,760,460 tramadol and other
opioid pills hidden in packs of Indomie noodles at Lagos airport and in Gombe
State.[1][2] Those opioid consignments are separate events and are not counted
here.
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.