A real estate agent, Abideen Jide Salami, was arrested on 9 September 2026 after arriving with a collection code sent by his brother in the UK to collect a luggage holding Colorado, a synthetic cannabis.[1] Officers at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, found 27 parcels of Colorado weighing 32.20 kg in the luggage.[1] Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said the operations intercepted more than 2.3 tonnes of assorted illicit drugs, including synthetic cannabis, opioids and other controlled substances.[1] Spokesman Femi Babafemi announced the results in a statement on Sunday.[1]

A follow-up operation led to the arrest of Nurudeen Abiodun Kadiri, 44, who told investigators his brother in the UK sent him the 12.25 kg Colorado consignment.[1] At Maza Maza motor park in Lagos, officers found three packs of Colorado in a music speaker bound for Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and then Liberia.[1] Tour agent Ifeanyi Obed Augustine, 41, and the alleged owner of the consignment, Obasi Ugochukwu, 46, were arrested at a nearby eatery.[1] Ifeanyi Nwokolo Henry was arrested at Iddo Park on 11 September while trying to dispatch 2.1 kg of Colorado to Kano.[1]

In Edo State, officers destroyed 4,832.56 kg of cannabis, known locally as skunk, on farms in Usen, Igwe-Oke and Ogboha forests.[1] The operations covered Ovia South-West, Owan East and Owan West local government areas, and Sunday Segun, 39, was arrested on 11 September.[1] In Akure, Ondo State, officers raided a house on Oke-Iya, Ijoka Road on 9 September and found 186 kg of skunk in the boot of a Toyota Avalon.[1] Paul Ogbuwala, 58, was arrested in connection with the seizure.[1] Hannah Michael was arrested at Gonin Gora in Kaduna State with 369.6 kg of cannabis.[2] Four suspects, including 70-year-old Godwoman Gboriye, were arrested at Ovom in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, with 110 bags weighing 876 kg.[1]

The statement also reported 785,000 pregabalin capsules weighing 669.425 kg found with Saidu Adamu, 20, in Sabon Gari, Kano.[1] In Plateau State, Chinedu Uzor, 51, was arrested at Katako Market in Jos with 157,100 tramadol capsules.[1] In Delta State, raids in Ughelli and Asaba recovered pentazocine injections, codeine syrup, tramadol, diazepam, flunitrazepam and MDMA.[1] Emeka Oji and Chukwuebuka Anedi were arrested.[1] Habibu Sabitu, 28, was arrested with 1,700 diazepam tablets concealed in loaves of bread.[1]