NDLEA Arrests Fleeing Bandits’ Drug Supplier ‘Gamboli’ In Niger

Three weeks after escaping arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, a notorious supplier of illicit drugs to bandits, 33-year-old Mohammed Sani, popularly known as Gamboli, has been arrested.

Gamboli was apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at his hideout in the State.

NDLEA operatives had on November 20, 2025, raided his house at Anguwan Makera, Kuta, following credible intelligence about his illicit drug activities, during which 471.8 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, were recovered.

NDLEA’s Spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who stated this on Sunday, said the suspect, who had escaped arrest during the raid and went into hiding, was traced and arrested by operatives of the anti-narcotic agency at one of his drug joints in Anguwan Fadama, Kuta, on Thursday, December 11.

According to Babafemi, intelligence reports had accused Gamboli of being a major supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in Shiroro local government area.

Meanwhile, NDLEA officers in Abia State raided a clandestine codeine syrup-manufacturing factory at Amapu Igbengwo Village, Umuakpara, in the Osisioma Local Government Area of the state on Thursday, December 11. During the operation, operatives recovered a total of 9,015 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,152.2kg.

In Enugu State, operatives on Thursday, on the same day, arrested a 45-year-old Ossai Emeka along Onitsha – Enugu Ezike Road with 7.2kg skunk, while one Enoje Agada, 40, was nabbed along Enugu-Ezike -Ette Road with 94.6kg of the same psychoactive substance.

A raid carried out by NDLEA operatives at a notorious drug joint known as “Beere the California” at Ido in Oyo State on the same day led to the seizure of 3.4kg skunk, 1.6kg Colorado, a synthetic cannabis and 400grams of methamphetamine.

The owner of the drug joint, identified as “Idowu the killer”, is currently at large, while a suspect, Ajibade Faruk, was nabbed at the joint.

Another operation at Idi Oro, Elekuro, Ibadan, on Friday, December 12, led to the arrest of a 35-year-old Olusanya Abosede and seizure of 238.4kg of skunk.

The duo of Bashiru Babalola, 43, and Ugunwale Ranti, 50, were arrested on Wednesday, December 10, at Gbaji checkpoint, Seme Road, Badagry, Lagos, with 50,000 pills of tramadol 250mg, while NDLEA operatives in Ogun State also arrested Akinwale Makanjuola and Joseph Owolabi with 73kg skunk at Iperu, just as another suspect, Wasiu Lateef, was nabbed with 25kg of the same substance at Oke Agbede in the Imeko area of the state on Tuesday, December 9.

In Ondo state, NDLEA officers acting on credible intelligence on Monday, December 8, raided a compound in Ogbese, Akure North local government area, where they arrested a 55-year-old woman, Veronica Obi and her 29-year-old son, Bright Obi, and recovered 1,187 kilograms of skunk and its seeds from them.

A suspect, Ohiomah Igbafe, 44, was also arrested during a raid at Uroe community, Owan East local government area of Edo State, where 461kg of skunk and its seeds were recovered on Tuesday, December 9th.

In Gombe State, a 50-year-old Muhammed Sani, alias Sha-Mu-Sha, was arrested with 40,000 capsules of tramadol at Tunfure area, Gombe, while two other suspects: Muhammad Abdullahi a.k.a. Sakalala, 52, and Muhammed Hamza a.k.a. Mamman, 32, were nabbed at Ashaka Jalingo, with 56kg skunk on Monday, December 8.

No fewer than 907 pills of tramadol, tapentadol, cocodamol, amitriptyline and bromazepam concealed in containers of local black soap, and designer wears, in six different consignments going to the US, Canada and Sweden were intercepted and seized by NDLEA operatives at two major courier companies in Lagos between Tuesday, 9th and Wednesday, 10th December, 2025.

At the Apapa seaport in Lagos, NDLEA officers intercepted a consignment of 170,000 bottles of codeine syrup, weighing 23,579kg, on Saturday, December 13th, during a joint examination of a container with men of the Nigeria Customs Service and other security agencies.