Two men held loading 554 kg of skunk into truck in Igboora
NDLEA officers arrested Oguntona Nasiru and Soji Balogun in Igboora on 29 October 2026 while they were loading 554 kg of skunk into a Volvo truck. The agency said the raid targeted a dealer known as Omo Oba, who escaped an earlier seizure of 309.5 kg.
On Thursday 29 October 2026, NDLEA officers conducted a follow-up operation on Idere Road in Igboora, Oyo State, and arrested Oguntona Nasiru, 46, and Soji Balogun, 47, while they were loading 554 kilograms of skunk into a Volvo truck for onward movement into town.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]The agency describes skunk as a strong strain of cannabis.[1]
The target who escaped
The agency said the operation targeted a notorious dealer known as Omo Oba, who escaped arrest on 25 October when officers seized309.5 kilograms of the same drug linked to him.[1][2][4][5][6][8][13][17][26][21][25]No further detail about Omo Oba has been published.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The dealer known as Omo Oba escaped on 25 October and his identity and whereabouts are not reported.
No charges or court outcome for the two arrested men have been published.
The NDLEA statement also reports operations in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Ondo and Edo, which are different events left out of this report.
The cocaine, diazepam, Exol-5, tramadol, pentazocine and AK-47 ammunition seizures in the same article are separate non-cannabis events excluded from this cannabis account.
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