National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 36-year-old suspected drug kingpin, Sunday Ibigide, in Delta State.
This came three years after the agency launched a manhunt for him over drug trafficking offences.
He was arrested in Asaba, the state capital, while attempting to move 250 blocks of skunk weighing 138 kilogrammes with his distribution bus.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said Ibigide came under searchlight on March 19, 2022, in connection with the seizure of 24.137kg of the same psychoactive substance and 10 grammes of molly, but thereafter went underground.
“However, following credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives in Delta State were able to arrest him along with one of his aides, Clement Osuya, 27, while they were trying to move the 250 parcels of skunk for distribution on Sunday, August 10, 2025,” Babafemi stated.
In another operation, no fewer than six suspects were arrested on Thursday, 14th August and Friday, 15th August, when NDLEA operatives supported by the military and vigilantes raided three cannabis farms in Enugu Ezike, Enugu state, where a total of 37,500kg of skunk was destroyed on 15 hectares of farmland. Those arrested include: Ugwuanyi Chinasa, 23; James Negedu, 26; Sopuruchukwu Obido, 22; Ebuka Onu, 30; Ukwueze Sunday, 42; and Oguche Friday, while 74.5kg of the illicit substance was recovered for the prosecution of the suspects.
While 20,700 pills of tramadol and cocodamol were seized from a suspect, Emmanuel Ayogu, 53, by NDLEA officers on patrol along Nsukka road, 9th mile, Enugu, on Saturday, August 16, two other suspects: Nsubechukwu Achidde, 24, and Osiaja Simple Frank, 41, were arrested with 27.6kg skunk on the same day at the new market, Enugu.
In Lagos, a 52-year-old woman, Muyibat Mumuni was arrested with her son, Faruk Mumuni, 25, by NDLEA operatives at Ladega Street, Mushin, on Wednesday, August 13, for storing and distributing 298 blocks of Ghana Loud weighing 149kg while another suspect, Emmanuel Samuel, was nabbed on Friday, August 15, in the Ajah area of Lekki, where 8.5kg Canadian Loud, a strain of cannabis, was recovered from their apartment.
In Kaduna, two suspects, Mohammed Amdife, 46, and Sulaiman Mohammed, 22, were arrested in connection with the seizure of 22,640 pills of tramadol and Rohypnol at Gwargwaje checkpoint, Zaria and the Tudun Wada area of the state. Two other suspects, Caroline David, 51, and Abdulhadi Umar, 30, were nabbed over the seizure of 111.1kg of skunk intercepted along the Zaria—Kano Road.
