Lagos court gives Sule Ibrahim life for 11.8 kg of cannabis
A Federal High Court in Lagos sentenced Sule Ibrahim to life imprisonment on 20 October 2015 for dealing in 11.8 kilograms of cannabis. He was one of 149 drug dealers convicted in Lagos that year, three of whom received life terms.
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos sentenced Sule Ibrahim, of Mopo Alayo village in Okun Ajah, to life imprisonment on 20 October 2015 for dealing in 11.8 kilograms of cannabis sativa.[1][2]The charge said he committed the offence on 9 November 2012, and after an initial not-guilty plea in March 2013 he changed his plea to guilty in April 2014.[1]
At the July 2015 review of facts, the NDLEAprosecutor tendered Ibrahim’s confessional statement, a forensic report confirming the substance was cannabis, and the bulk 11.8 kilograms itself.[1]His counsel urged mercy as a first offender, but the judge imposed the maximum life term.[1]
Ibrahim was one of 149 drug dealers convicted in Lagos in 2015 on NDLEA arrests, and one of three given life sentences that year.[2]The NDLEA’s Lagos command said it seized7,345.87 kilograms of mostly cannabis and arrested 531 suspects over the same year.[2]
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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.