NDLEA seizes 32.24 kg of imported Loud cannabis after Lekki arrest
Nigeria's NDLEA intercepted seven cartons of imported Loud cannabis at a Lagos logistics firm on 12 March 2025 and arrested businessman Arokodare Damil Ebenezer at Bay Lounge on Admiralty Way, Lekki, on 24 March; a search of his flat added 94 grams and paraphernalia for a total of 32.24 kilograms.
🇳🇬 Bay Lounge, Admiralty Way, Lekki, Lagos · Nigeria
On 12 March 2025 operatives of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seized seven
large cartons holding 60 parcels of Loud, a potent cannabis strain, at a logistics company in
Lagos after the shipment arrived from the United States.[1][2]
On 24 March the agency arrested Arokodare Damil Ebenezer, 43, who runs Damillionz Takeout, at Bay
Lounge on Admiralty Way in Lekki while he waited for a fresh consignment.[1][2]
Officers searched his Lekki residence the same day and recovered 94 grams of cannabis, a grinder
and other paraphernalia, bringing the total weight seized from him to 32.24 kilograms.[1][2]
In a statement quoted by both outlets, NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi said Ebenezer told
investigators he had been in the illicit drug trade since 2017.[1][2]
Case data
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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.