Man arrested with 6.07 kg of cannabis at Marine Beach, Apapa
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.
Operatives of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a
32-year-old man, Abubakar Ali, at Marine Beach in Apapa, Lagos, on Friday 6
November 2026.[1][2]Officers recovered a stash of drugs from a small store the
man had built inside the sitting room of his apartment.[3]The items recovered included 6.07 kg of cannabis, with tramadol, pregabalin, diazepam and codeine also found in the same store.[2]
The arrest was one of several operations announced in an NDLEA statement issued
on Sunday 8 November 2026 by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi
Babafemi.[4]The same statement recorded cannabis seizures in Ondo, Ekiti,
Edo, Taraba, Enugu and Delta states, and NDLEA chairman Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba
Marwa commended officers of the Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Delta, Taraba and Enugu
commands.[3]
Case data
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The statement gives no charges, court date or outcome for the man arrested at Marine Beach.
No street value was published for the 6.07 kg of cannabis, and the statement does not say how it was packaged or weighed.
The 6.07 kg is reported as cannabis without a stated laboratory confirmation.
The same search recovered tramadol, pregabalin, diazepam and codeine; those quantities are not cannabis figures and are left out.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in National Drug Law Enforcement Agency: The items recovered included 6.07 kg of cannabis alongside 1.06 kg of Tramadol 250mg, 1.27 kg of Tramadol 225mg, 400 g of pregabalin capsules, 355 g of diazepam and 200 ml of codeine.
Not added to lagos-airport-houston-sofas-loud-1615kg, as its quotation was not found in National Drug Law Enforcement Agency: NDLEA officers on Wednesday 4 November 2026 intercepted 32 parcels of Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 16.15 kilograms, concealed inside two wooden sofas in a consolidated cargo that arrived from Houston, Texas, United States aboard a Turkish Airlines flight.
Not added to taraba-lankaviri-283-blocks-226kg, as its quotation was not found in National Drug Law Enforcement Agency: In Taraba state, operatives on stop-and-search duty at the NDLEA checkpoint in Lankaviri, Yorro LGA, arrested three suspects with a total of 283 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing 226.255 kilograms within two days.
Left out products, as its quotation was not found in National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Left out kg seized, as its quotation was not found in National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
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 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.
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.
