NDLEA arrest 75-year-old man with 26.7kg skunk in Taraba – GBN

Omodele Adigun

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Uchelue Ikechukwu, a 75-year-old man, with 26.7kg of skunk during a raid by its operatives in Taraba State.

Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA Spokesman, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

The statement said Ikechukwu was arrested with 26.7kg of skunk at Umudioka, Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra on Thursday, August 28, while six other suspects were picked up in Nkwelle and Amichi areas of the state for dealing in opioids and cannabis

It said its operatives also arrested a 30-year-old Alfa Andrew with a Dane gun during a raid on a 71.5 hectares of cannabis farm supported by the military and local vigilantes stormed Mayodoga forest in Sardauna LGA.

The NDLEA also intercepted no fewer than 104,900 capsules of tramadol concealed in the driver’s compartment of a fuel tanker suspected to be destined for insurgents in parts of Borno State.

They were intercepted at the Abuja/Kaduna tollgate in Kaduna on Friday, August 29, 2025, with the suspect Hassan Buba taken into custody.

Another suspect, Kabir Sulaiman, 45, was arrested with 34.150kg of skunk at Gwargwaje-Zaria checkpoint on Saturday, August 30, 2025.

The NDLEA operatives in Borno also arrested a 33-year-old Uchenna Umeh, a major supplier of illicit opioids, on Saturday, August 30, 2025, shortly after he received supplies from Onitsha, Anambra State.

Recovered from his apartment in Chescon, Pompomary area of Maiduguri were 30,640 pills of tramadol 225mg, 7,940 tablets of rohypnol, and ₦7,999,200 in N200 new notes.

NDLEA operatives arrested Abubakar Dauda, 36, with 79,040 pills of tramadol and diazepam at Abacha Park, Mararaba Karu on Thursday, August 28, 2025.

This followed the arrest of Babangida Tungura, 47, in Lafia, with 30,410 pills of tramadol and rohypnol, as well as 38 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup concealed in a deep freezer from Asaba, Delta State, on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.

A 23-year-old Mohammed Ali was arrested in Adamawa State on Wednesday, August 27, 2025 in a follow-up operation at Ngorore after NDLEA intercepted 15,000 capsules of tramadol concealed in sacks of animal feed at the Gombe mega park.

In Kano, Ashiru Garba, 20, and Aminu Abdu, 22, were arrested along Kano-Hadejia Road with 1.5kg skunk and 25,000 pills of exol-5 on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.

Two other suspects, Ali Muhammad, 37, and Muhammad Maishanu, 42, were arrested along Zaria-Kano Road, Gadan Tamburawa, with 8,080 bottles of a new psychoactive substance and 25.7kg skunk on Thursday, August 28, 2025,.

In Kano, Alhasaan Musa, 25, was arrested with about 250,000 tablets of exol-5 in Zango area, Ungogo LGA, Kano, on Saturday, August 30, 2025.

NDLEA operatives in Yola, Adamawa State has arrested Hamisu Abdullahi after intercepting a golf saloon car (GME 253 HP) driven by Sani Suleiman, coming from Gombe State, loaded with sacks of pepper concealing 79 blocks of skunk weighing 58kg.

In Edo State, 64,250 pills of opioids, mainly tramadol, were intercepted on a commercial bus from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Okene, Kogi State, along Ewu-Auchi road, Etsako West LGA, with Mohammed Halidu, 36, arrested.

Elves Odogwu, 45, and David Jeremiah, 35, were arrested in Ondo State when NDLEA operatives raided Queen Elizabeth, Aponmun Reserved Camp, recovering 117.5kg of processed cannabis and seeds on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.

In Ekiti State, NDLEA operatives raided Nova Street, behind New Creation School, Ado-Ekiti, on Friday, August 29, 2025, seizing 5.3 kilograms of Loud and Colorado, as well as 2.5 grams of methamphetamine from 42-year-old Ajayi Ayodeji Idowu (a.k.a. Atiku).