Hard drugs war: 7.6m Tramadol Pills, 76,273kg Colorado, Skunk seized in Delta, Imo, Adamawa raids

In series of intelli­gence-led operations across the country, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (ND­LEA) have recovered over 7.6 million pills of trama­dol and a total of 76,273.4 kilogrammes of different strains of cannabis includ­ing Colorado, Loud and Skunk with several mem­bers of Drug Trafficking Organisations linked to the seizures arrested.

A statement by Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokesman, said out of the total opioids seized during the raids, not less than 3,874,000 pills of tramadol 225mg and 100mg, and oth­ers as well as 252.2 litres of codeine syrup were re­covered from a warehouse at Oko market, Asaba, Delta State on Saturday, December 6, 2025, while no fewer than 1.2 million tablets of tramadol 225mg were seized from a suspect Kelechi Nwakocha, 35, on Wednesday, December 3 when NDLEA operatives on patrol at Orogwe, along Onitsha- Owerri Road, Imo State, intercepted his vehi­cle conveying the consign­ment which was loaded at Aba, Abia State, heading to Onitsha, Anambra State.

In Adamawa State, ND­LEA officers on Monday, December 1, 2025, inter­cepted a Toyota Hiace bus marked MGU 554 XB along Maraba-Mubi coming from Jos, Plateau State going to Mubi with a total of 1, 577,112 capsules of trama­dol and exol-5 tablets, all concealed inside jumbo bags mixed with new rub­ber sandals and slippers. Two suspects, Kabiru Buba, 25, and Hamza Abubakar, 32, were arrested in connec­tion with the seizure.

Similarly, another sus­pect, Mudansir Rabiu, 27, was nabbed along Zaria- Kano road, Kano State, with 197,000 pills of exol-5.

Operatives of a special operations unit of ND­LEA stormed forests in Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti State where they destroyed 14,654 kilogrammes of skunk and arrested two suspects, Yu­suf Iliyasu, 50, and Okumu Chinedu, 26.

In another operation, the operatives on Tuesday, December 2, stormed the forests in Asin-Ekiti, Ikole LGA, Ekiti State, where they destroyed 54,300kg of skunk in two large ware­houses that were razed while 28.3kg of the same psychoactive substance was recovered for the pur­pose of prosecution.

Following actionable in­telligence, NDLEA opera­tives on Tuesday, December 2, raided Igoba forest in Ak­ure North LGA, Ondo State where a total of 2,483 com­pressed blocks of skunk and 247 bags of same sub­stance all weighing 5,442 kilograms were recovered and five suspects arrested.

Those nabbed include: Ja­cob Omodowo, 66; Joy Olu­atobi Peace, 24; Babatunde Olamide, 40; Echi Fidelis Joseph, 57; and Ankrah Akano, 56.

While 500kg of same substance was recovered from a Mercedes Benz van marked MGU 614 XB by NDLEA officers on patrol along Mokwa-Jebba road in Niger State on Decem­ber 4 with the driver Amos Yakubu, 46, arrested, oper­atives in the FCT Abuja on Wednesday, December 3, intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a synthetic cannabis, weighing 22kg at Abaji expressway.

A fol­low up operation at the Jabi park in Abuja led to the ar­rest of a female receiver, Ali Blessing, 33.

Also in the FCT, a suspect Aliyu Usman, 39, was arrested by operatives on Friday, December 5 with 24kg skunk and 573,500 pills of exol-5 along Kwali-Gwagwalada expressway.

In Lagos, NDLEA opera­tives recovered 217 pouches of Canadian Loud weigh­ing 113kg from a suspect, Ezenwa Udoka at Ladipo Market, Mushin, while Izu­chukwu Usulor was nabbed with 351kg skunk at Onipa­nu area of the state on De­cember 5 and Susan Okoro arrested with 104.1kg of same psychoactive sub­stance at Trade Fair com­plex, Ojo, on Tuesday, De­cember 2.

A total of 447.5 kilo­grammes of skunk were recovered from two Honda Accord cars marked, ABC- 678 KK and GGE-772 FB at Agho forest, Akoko Edo LGA, Edo state. A suspect Dada Adedara Babawibi, 56, was apprehended in connection with the sei­zure. A raid operation at a warehouse in the Isiefve community, Ohuwunde LGA, led to the seizure of 315.8kg of skunk and the arrest of a suspect Stanley Obasuwa.

With the same vigour, commands and formations of the agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA), sensitisation ac­tivities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities, among oth­ers, in the past week.

These include: WADA sensiti­sation lecture to students and staff of St. Michael’s Academy, Sabon Gari, Kano; Harry Pass Second­ary School, Masaje, Gboko LGA, Benue; and Com­munity Junior Secondary School, Okuru-Ama, Obio/ Akpor LGA, Rivers state, among others.

While commending the officers and men of SOU, Delta, Adamawa, Imo, Ondo, Lagos, Kano, FCT, Niger and Edo commands of the agency for the ar­rests and seizures, Chair­man/Chief Executive Offi­cer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) stated that their oper­ational successes and those of their compatriots across the country especially their balanced approach to drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts are well appreciated.