NDLEA seizes 375 kg of cannabis after trailing a suspect in Owo
Ondo NDLEA operatives tracked 53-year-old Okunebe Ndidi to a hideout in Ameyinti on 16 October 2026 and recovered 25 bags of cannabis weighing 375 kg. He was arrested; further charges or court dates were not reported.
In the Owo area of Ondo State, NDLEA operatives on 16 October 2026 trailed 53-year-old Okunebe
Ndidi to his hideout in Ameyinti and arrested him.[1][2]
They recovered 25 bags of cannabis weighing 375 kilograms.[1][2]The agency included the
operation in a national statement focused on other seizures the same week; it gave no court
update or detail on how Ndidi was linked to the drugs beyond the arrest at the hideout.[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.