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3 Jul 2021
The Netherlands has become a major gateway for drugs into Europe, mainly through the major international port city of Rotterdam.
23 Jun 2021
Law enforcement officer, 6 others arrested for dealing in cocaine, as NDLEA uncovers heroin in Pakistan-returnee’s body at Lagos airport
8 Jun 2021
NDLEA have arrested seven drug traffickers who tried to either import into Nigeria or export to the United Kingdom and Italy.
24 May 2021
NDLEA intercepts N8billion cocaine, arrests Brazilian based drug kingpin at Lagos airport, and seizes $24,500 offered as a bribe to compromise an investigation.
25 Mar 2021
Nigeria Customs service hands over casefile of vessel carrying cocaine to NDLEA
14 Mar 2021
Lockdown — a time without parties and drug use? Not quite. Despite COVID, tons of cocaine is ending up in Germany. The stimulant is crossing the Atlantic in record quantities, hidden in shipping containers.
11 Mar 2021
The Honduran president has been accused of taking bribes from a major drug trafficker. This is not the first time he has been accused of working with traffickers.
27 Feb 2021
"Never before has so much cocaine been intercepted at once," said Dutch police, speaking about the mega-shipment worth billions of euros.
20 Feb 2021
Honduran authorities incinerate 1,426 kilos of cocaine seized from cartel members, at a time when Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and armed forces officials are being investigated in the United States for drug trafficking.
16 Feb 2021
Nigeria’s antinarcotics agency, the NDLEA, appears to have been invigorated by the appointment of Mohammed Buba Marwa as its new chief executive, as the agency has made multiple drug busts and seized narcotics worth over ₦60 billion in the past month.
10 Feb 2021
NDLEA seizes 40 parcels of cocaine at Lagos Tincan Port
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