The agency also arrested a 20-year-old music artist, Godspower George Osahenrumwen, popularly known as Steady Boy, for attempting to collect a shipment of cannabis imported from the United States.
The consignment, concealed inside three cartons of bathtubs, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, aboard a DHL flight on October 28.
Steady Boy was apprehended at Bougain Villa, Primewater Gardens 2, Freedom Way, Lekki, when he showed up to collect the 140 bags of Loud, weighing 77.2kg, on behalf of a syndicate led by his manager, Zion Osazee Omigie (alias Zee Money), who remains at large.
In Kaduna, NDLEA operatives intercepted 84,710 capsules of Tramadol being transported from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Bauchi. A follow-up operation led to the arrest of 27-year-old Musa Abdulkarim.
Two days later, 47-year-old Hamza Musa was arrested at the Abuja-Kaduna tollgate with 32,946 bottles of Akuskura, a new psychoactive substance (NPS), while 30-year-old Saidu Nafiu was caught with 131.5kg of skunk in Igabi LGA, Kaduna State.
In Ogun State, NDLEA officers intercepted a bus along Abiola Way, Abeokuta, arresting Seun Olaniyi (24), Rauf Asogba (28), and Ayinla Adeniyi (50) with 1,779kg of skunk traced from Benin Republic.
In Bauchi, operatives seized 596.4kg of skunk from Jamilu Mustapha (alias Last Card), while 532,600 pills of Tramadol and Exol-5 were recovered from three suspects in Ilorin, Kwara State, inside a truck marked KTG-791ZZ.
