NDLEA Seizes N6.2bn ‘Jihadi Drug’, Opioids at Lagos Airport, Arrests Cross-Border Kingpin

By Zainab Uzomah| Abuja The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted illicit drugs worth more than N6.2 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, including 47,200 tablets of captagon, popularly known as the ‘Jihadi drug,’ concealed inside local bathing soap brought from Ghana. The 49-year-old alleged cross-border drug kingpin, Akinbile Kazeem Aikins, was arrested on Saturday, August 22, 2026, after arriving from Accra, Ghana, aboard an African […]

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Police Foil Cross-Border Bus Smuggling Plot, Arrest Driver and Guarantor at Ogun Border

By Zainab Uzomah|Abuja Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have thwarted an attempt to smuggle a stolen company bus into the Benin Republic, arresting the vehicle's driver and his guarantor in a late-night operation along the Idiroko border corridor. The suspects, identified as 46-year-old Seun Lawal and 38-year-old Ademola Oriyomi, were arrested after police intercepted a 28-seater Toyota Coaster bus that had earlier been reported stolen from Lagos. Police […]

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Nigerian Refugees Return Home After 11 Years as Operation Hadin Kai Secures Cross-Border Repatriation

By Zainab Uzomah Hundreds of Nigerian refugees who spent more than a decade in exile in Cameroon have finally returned home, following a coordinated cross-border operation led by troops of Operation Hadin Kai in Borno State. The returnees, displaced for over 11 years by insurgency, were escorted safely on 27 January from the Kirawa crossing into Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Area, under heavy security provided by Sector 1 troops, the […]

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