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Five members of  an organised drug criminal group were arrested during sting operations carried out between Friday 7th May and Saturday 8th May, 2021 by officers of the FCT Command of the Agency during which different brands of illicit drugs were recovered from them. The nabbed drug dealers include Queen Nvene, Collins Ozoemena, Samson Peter, Chika Nvene, and Habila Musa. The group specialises in clandestine production of drug based cookies, brownies and other edibles; markets and sells same online, through their Twitter and Instagram handles. They also market and sell all types of marijuana; Arizona, Colorado and Loud, among other illicit drugs, online. While Queen Nvene, a graduate of Business Administration, produces drug cookies and brownies and sells same on Instagram, Collins Ozoemena sells all types of illicit drugs, especially Loud and skunk online. Samson Peter on the other hand, is the manager of SK express courier company, who manages motorcycles and dispatch riders to d...

 The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has continued to put the heat on drug traffickers with the arrest of a Madrid, Spain-bound suspected drug trafficker, Okonkwo Chimezie Henry, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.  The suspected drug trafficker was arrested on Easter Day, Sunday, April 4, 2021. Okonkwo was about boarding a Turkish Airline with flight number TK0626 around 8 pm when he was apprehended at screening 2 point and taken into custody by the agency’s operatives at the Lagos airport. The spokesman for NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said the suspect was subsequently put under observation at the JBTF/NDLEA facility for further investigation. He added that Okonkwo excreted a total of 113 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.750kg with a street value of N423m. The statement read, “Twenty-four hours after putting him under excretion observation, the suspect, who has been living in Spain for 10 years, excreted 39 wraps of cocaine and subsequently p...