4.1 tonnes of Canadian Loud seized at Tincan port, Lagos
Nigerian officers seized more than 4.1 tonnes of Canadian Loud cannabis hidden in vehicles inside a container at Tincan Island port in Lagos. The container had travelled from Toronto via Montreal and Tanger Med, in an operation involving Nigerian services with United States and Canadian partners.
In Nigeria, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency operations illustrate the scale
of trafficking flows through Lagos ports.[1]Officers intercepted more than
4.1 tonnes of the same cannabis substance at Tincan Island port in Lagos.[1]The substance is Canadian Loud, which is described as a high-potency cannabis
variety.[1]Authorities valued the Tincan Island cargo at about 7.6 million
dollars.[1]
The cannabis cargo was hidden in vehicles imported from Canada and placed inside
a maritime container.[1]The container had left Toronto on 28 March 2026,
travelled by rail to Montreal, then passed through the port of Tanger Med in
Morocco before arriving in Lagos on 9 May.[1]
The operation mobilised anti-drug services, Nigerian Customs and international
partners including the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.[1]The account places these seizures among
trafficking circuits linking Latin America, the African Atlantic coasts, the
Sahel and European markets.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The interception date is inferred as 13 May 2026, four days after the 9 May 2026 villa discovery mentioned in the same paragraph; the article gives no separate calendar date for the Tincan seizure.
The article says 'plus de 4,1 tonnes', so 4100 kg is a minimum; the exact excess was not stated.
No arrests, charges or court outcome for the Tincan cargo were reported in the opened source.
Only one opened source could be established for this seizure; no second account was found in searches.
The same article reports a separate 2.326-tonne Canadian Loud discovery in a Lekki villa on 9 May 2026, a different event left out of this report.
The same overview mentions other cannabis seizures at Mbour, in Casamance and at Heremakono in Mali, left out here as separate events.
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.