Taiwo Jimoh 
Personnel of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted a consignment of co caine and pharmaceutical opioids concealed in sanitary pads and hair treatment cream containers heading to the United Kingdom, Ireland and Cyprus at three courier firms in Lagos.
The Agency’s spokesperson, Mr. Femi Babafemi, in a statement yesterday said in one of the logistics companies, not less than 30 parcels of cocaine weighing 1.1 kilograms concealed in hair cream containers were recovered by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI), during examination of cargoes going to Ireland on Tuesday, September 3.
Babafemi said another consignment of 24 parcels of cocaine weighing 862 grams also hidden in hair cream containers meant for delivery in UK was equally in – tercepted at the same company on Friday September 6.
In the same vein, a total of 525 pills of tramadol 225mg and ecstasy (MDMA) concealed in ladies’ sanitary pads going to Cyprus were also seized at another courier firm in Lagos by NDLEA operatives on Tuesday September 3, while a shipment of 200 ampoules of promethazine injection and pentazocine injection hidden in food items and herbs heading to London, UK, was also seized by operatives on Wednesday, September 4.
According to him, “the operatives equally intercepted another consignment of tramadol 225mg buried in granulated melon that came from C a m e r o o n and going to South Africa on Friday September 6.”
No fewer than 550,000 pills of tramadol were also intercepted at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Port Harcourt, on Monday September 2, during a joint examination of a cargo that came from Delhi, India, with men of the Nigerian Customs Service, while a suspect is already arrested in connection with the seizure.
In Ekiti State, NDLEA operatives supported by men of the Nigerian Army on Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th September stormed three camps inside the Ise-Ekiti forest reserve, in Ise/Orun Local Government Area where over 100,000 kilograms of cannabis spread across 51 hectares of farm land were destroyed.
The affected settlements include: Aba Saalaja with 23 hectares; Aba Paanu with 12 hectares and Aba Arogunmatidi with 16 hectares, all within the IseEkiti forest reserve.
