46 blocks of cannabis bound for the UK seized at Lagos courier firms
NDLEA operatives at courier companies in Lagos intercepted 46 blocks of cannabis weighing 22.2 kg packed in two cartons bound for the United Kingdom on 3 November 2026. The agency announced the export seizure in a roundup of other operations and reported no arrest over the consignment.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Nigeria’s
anti-narcotics agency, intercepted 46 blocks of cannabis weighing 22.2 kilograms
at courier companies in Lagos on Tuesday 3 November 2026.[1][2][3][4]The drug was
packed in two cartons and was bound for the United Kingdom.[5]Channels
Television, reporting the agency’s account, placed the interception at courier
companies in Lagos and said the consignment was destined for the United Kingdom.[6]
The same week’s operations also seized 296 tablets of Swinol going to Australia
and three shipments of tramadol bound for the UK: 20 capsules from Benin City,
96 capsules from Sapele, Delta State and 600 tablets from Asaba.[5]Announcing
the operations on Sunday 8 November 2026, NDLEA chairman Brig. Gen. Mohamed
Marwa (retd) commended officers of the agency’s MMIA, Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo,
Delta, Taraba and Enugu commands.[5]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The reports name no suspect, arrest, charge or court outcome in connection with the 46 blocks.
The agency gives the location only as courier companies in Lagos; no individual company or district is named.
The 22.2 kg is described as cannabis without laboratory confirmation or a more specific product description beyond the block form.
The reports do not say how the weight was divided between the two cartons or who the sender and recipient were.
The same roundup reports other cannabis seizures in Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Taraba, Enugu and Delta states and a shipment with 1.20 kg of cannabis alongside synthetic-cannabis chemicals; those are separate events left out of this report.
Platform Times reproduces the same NDLEA statement already cited in this report and adds no independent reporting, arrest or court outcome for the 46 blocks.
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.