Three arrested as 2,687kg skunk seized in Cross River warehouse
NDLEA officers raided a warehouse in Obereakai, Odukpani LGA, Cross River State on 12 June 2025, arresting three men. They recovered 2,687kg of skunk, described as a strain of cannabis.
🇳🇬 Obereakai, Odukpani LGA, Cross River State · Nigeria
NDLEA operatives raided a warehouse in Obereakai, Odukpani LGA, Cross River
State on Thursday 12 June 2025.[1]They arrested 47-year-old Friday Achibong
Joseph at the warehouse during the raid.[1]They also arrested 21-year-old
Abraham Anthony Willy and 24-year-old Utibe David Okon at the same warehouse.[1]
Officers recovered a total of 2,687kg of skunk from the warehouse.[1]Skunk is
described as a strain of cannabis.[1]The Obereakai warehouse recovery
amounted to 2,687kg of skunk, described as a potent strain of cannabis.[2]
The 2,687kg figure is the NDLEA’s figure for the warehouse recovery.[1]The
raid combined arrests and a seizure at the same Obereakai site, with three
people detained and the cannabis haul taken there.[1]The warehouse was in
Obereakai, Odukpani LGA, Cross River State.[1]In Cross River, NDLEA officers
raided a warehouse on Thursday in Obereakai, Odukpani LGA.[2]At least three
suspects were arrested when operatives raided the Obereakai warehouse.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The same NDLEA roundup also reports separate cannabis seizures the same week — 287kg in Bauchi, 560kg at Oniru beach in Lagos and undisclosed quantities at Maiduguri airport — which are different events left out of this report.
The agency account gives the names as Abraham Anthony Willy and Utibe David Okon, while the second account shortens them to Abraham Anthony and Utibe Okon; this report uses the fuller NDLEA forms.
No charges, custody status or court outcome were reported for the three arrested men.
The year 2025 for the 12 June raid is taken from the agency statement dated Sunday 15 June 2025, which gives the raid day as Thursday 12 June.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Peoples Gazette: Those arrested were Friday Achibong Joseph, 47, Abraham Anthony, 21, and Utibe Okon, 24.
Nigeria's NDLEA in Edo State said its October 2026 operations arrested 75 suspected traffickers and seized 2,492.7 kg of cannabis, including 702.83 kg found in a car at Otuo. The command also said it destroyed eight cannabis farms covering 5.73 hectares.
NDLEA officers arrested three men at the Lankaviri checkpoint in Yorro, Taraba State, with 283 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing 226.255 kg. The suspects were held with separate consignments ranging from 47 to 156 blocks.
NDLEA operatives arrested a 32-year-old man at Marine Beach in Apapa, Lagos, on 6 November 2026 and found 6.07 kg of cannabis in a small store inside the sitting room of his apartment. The seizure was announced with opioids, tramadol, pregabalin and codeine recovered in the same search.
NDLEA operatives arrested a 53-year-old man at Osin Forest in Osin Ekiti, Ekiti State, on 5 November 2026 with 216 kilograms of cannabis and cannabis seeds. The agency announced the arrest in a roundup of raids across several states, also listing seizures in Lagos, Ondo, Edo, Delta and Taraba, issued on Sunday 8 November 2026.
