Ex-lawmaker jailed seven years over 81.9 kg of cannabis in Yola
Former Adamawa lawmaker Missa Bobbo was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Federal High Court in Yola for possessing 81.9 kilograms of cannabis. He had been arrested in Jada in 2013 after months of NDLEA monitoring, and officers also harvested fresh plants from his farm.
Adamawa State’s drug agency arrested former state assembly member Missa Bobbo in Jada town after
several months of monitoring, seizing 81.9 kilograms of cannabis sativa.[1]NDLEA commander
Hassan Zungeru confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria in Yola and said Bobbo, who sat
in the assembly in 1992, had been charged before the Federal High Court in Yola.[1]
The court later sentenced Bobbo to seven years in prison for possessing the 81.9 kilograms in
2013, NDLEA spokesman Mitchell Ofoyeju said.[2]Justice Balkisu Aliyu, who passed the sentence,
described the former legislator’s part in drug trafficking as shameful.[2]Bobbo represented the
Leko-Koma constituency between 1991 and 1993 and attended the 1995 national constitutional
conference; officers also harvested fresh cannabis plants from his farm alongside the dried
stock.[2]
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An estate agent, Salami Abideen Jide, pleaded guilty on 15 October 2026 at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, to procuring and importing 32.2 kilograms of cannabis sativa from Canada, and was and the judge sentenced him to six years in prison, with the option of a six million naira fine.
Charged 1Prison six years (reported as three years on each of two counts, running concurrently)Fine NGN 6,000,000
A Federal High Court in Lagos sentenced 60-year-old Chinese woman Ting Hong Kiong to two years in prison after she pleaded guilty to importing 31 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa. The judge ordered the term to run from her arrest at Murtala Muhammed International Airport on 17 May 2026, and the court imposed no option of a fine.
On 17 March 2026 Justice M.N. Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Kano sentenced Jonathan Nuhu, 45, of Kanke in Plateau State, to 15 years for unlawful possession of cannabis. NDLEA had arrested him on 20 July 2023 near Wudil Bridge with 116 bags; he was already on bail from a 2021 Jigawa sentence for a similar offence.