3 held with 226 kg of cannabis at Taraba checkpoint
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.
🇳🇬 Lankaviri checkpoint, Yorro, Taraba State · Nigeria
Three suspects were arrested within two days at the agency’s checkpoint in
Lankaviri, Yorro Local Government Area, with 283 blocks of compressed cannabis
weighing 226.255 kg.[1][2]Officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
recovered the 283 blocks from the three suspects at the checkpoint.[1]Ibrahim
Abdullahi, 45, was found with 156 blocks weighing 149.275 kg, Kabiru Usman, 25,
with 80 blocks weighing 40.07 kg, and Babangida Babayo, 32, with 47 blocks
weighing 36.91 kg.[1][2]
NDLEA chairman Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa commended personnel of the agency’s
commands in Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Delta, Taraba and Enugu for the arrests and
seizures.[1]
The NDLEA statement dates the first Taraba arrests to Thursday 5 November 2026, when 45-year-old Ibrahim Abdullahi was held with 156 blocks weighing 149.275 kilograms and 25-year-old Kabiru Usman with 80 blocks weighing 40.07 kilograms.[3]On Friday 6 November 2026, 32-year-old Babangida Babayo was arrested with 47 blocks weighing 36.91 kilograms.[3]
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The article gives no separate date for the Taraba checkpoint arrests, saying only they occurred within two days; 8 November 2026, the publication date, stands in for the incident date.
No charges, court dates or outcomes for the three suspects were reported.
The same article also reports cocaine, Tapentadol, tramadol, synthetic-cannabis chemicals and other cannabis seizures in Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Enugu and Delta, which are separate events left out of this report.
Only one source could be opened for the Taraba figures; no independent second report was found.
The NDLEA statement dates the Taraba arrests to Thursday 5 and Friday 6 November 2026, while the report uses the 8 November publication date; the exact operation dates are newly supported here.
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 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.
NDLEA operatives arrested a 57-year-old man at a checkpoint in Eke Obinagu, Enugu State, on 3 November 2026 and found 44 blocks of cannabis weighing 22.5 kg. The arrest was listed in a nationwide roundup of seizures the agency announced on 9 November 2026.
