A 22-year-old supplier of illicit substances to bandits, Muhammad Mohammed, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
According to available information, the illicit drugs supplier to bandits was nabbed by the operatives of the NDLEA on April 13, 2025.
Mohammed was stopped by operatives on patrol along Bichi-Kano Road while heading to Katsina with 277 ampoules of pentazocine injection tied to his thigh and private part with cellotape.
Another suspect, Mohammed Abdulrahman Abdulaziz, 43, was nabbed the same day at Research Rimin Kebe area of Nasarawa, Kano State with 68 blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 30kg.
Not less than 557.2kg of skunk, 5.6kg of methamphetamine, and 29.8grams of heroin were recovered from a house along Major General Isaiah Allison Street, Opolo, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, where four suspects were arrested when NDLEA operatives raided the premises on April 16.
The four suspects arrested during the raid were: Sarimiye Suwa Kurtis, 46; Roland Prosper, 34; Sarimiye Tare Paul, 45; and Fidelis Ugbesla, 46.
While a total of 1,100 kilograms of skunk were recovered from a delivery van with the driver, Ismail Abdullahi, arrested in Surulere area of Lagos State on April 17, NDLEA operatives in Kaduna on April 18 raided the hideout of a suspect, Ike Ani, 30, in Zaria, where no fewer than 31,950 pills of tramadol 225mg and diazepam were recovered.
In Kebbi State, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bagudo Road on April 18 intercepted a vehicle loaded with bags of charcoal coming from Malabil, Benin Republic.
A search of the vehicle led to the recovery of 97kg skunk concealed in sacks of charcoal.
