By RhemDy News
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an 84-year-old Godfrey Orji and 75-year-old Godwin Obulunbiya Obiora, both grandfathers, for dealing in illicit substances, which they sell to teenage secondary school students in Umuahia, Abia State.
NDLEA's Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi disclosed this through a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said Pa Obiora was arrested by NDLEA operatives on Friday June 19, 2026, following credible intelligence that he was selling illicit substances to young students and others in his patent medicine store.
The suspect store is located at 4 Club Road, Umuahia, where 4.64 kilograms of opioids including tramadol and diazepam were recovered from the suspect during a search of his premises.
In his case, Pa Orji who is a pensioner and also into the illicit drug trade, was nabbed by security guards at Saint Silas Secondary School, Old Umuahia, for supplying illicit drugs to two teenage students (names withheld) in the school.
The director said the guards thereafter handed the suspects over to the police who in turn transferred them to the anti-narcotics agency on Thursday June 18.
In his statement, one of the two teenagers, a 15-year-old SS2 student claimed the 84-year-old grandpa supplies him the drugs which he takes and also sells to fellow students.
While the two grandpas are billed to have their day in court, the statement said the two students have been placed on counselling and rehabilitation.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives have intercepted a consignment of ADB Chminaca, a synthetic cannabinoid classified as a dangerous new psychoactive substance (NPS), at a courier firm in Lagos.
The shipment coming from China with a gross weight of 9.5 kilograms was concealed in a carton.
This was followed by another seizure on Tuesday June 16, at a different logistics company in Lagos where 300grams of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis was found hidden in ladies’ handbags.
In another interdiction operation in Lagos, NDLEA officers on Friday June 19 raided the home of a wanted drug dealer Lukman Badmus (a.k.a. Lukman Ogombo) in Ogombo area of Ajah where nine bottles of codeine syrup and 30 grams of skunk were recovered.
A swift follow up operation at Lukman’s wife shop in Patey area of Lagos Island led to the recovery of additional two bottles of codeine and drug paraphernalia, while 42 compressed blocks of skunk weighing 22.5kg were also recovered from a mini bus parked in front of her shop.
Babafemi added that an attempt by the suspect's wife, Aisha Saraki, to flush some of the drug exhibits in the toilet during the raid was thwarted by operatives.
In Kogi state, NDLEA officers on patrol along Okene/Lokoja highway on Friday June 19, arrested a suspect Tochukwu Onah, 33, coming from Lagos to Abuja with 1.030kg methamphetamine.
The exhibit was concealed in custard containers, while a couple identified as James Tony Chukwudi, 48, and James Kehinde, 35, who were wanted in connection with the seizure of 117 kilograms of skunk sinc March 26, 2026 in Ekiti State were eventually arrested at Oniyo street Efon-Alaaye-Ekiti on Tuesday June 16 after months on the run.
In Oyo state, 75-year-old Tudun Olubiyi and two others - Nasiru Buhari, 22; and Buba Musa, 47, were arrested by NDLEA operatives when their house located in the Dangote area, Elekara, Oyo Town, was raided on Saturday June 20 with 118 jumbo bags containing 1,416kg skunk
covered with sawdust recovered.
A suspect Patrick Imoukhede, 45, was arrested on Wednesday June 17 when NDLEA officers raided the Khagba Forest, Ikao, Owan East LGA, where they destroyed 1,744.075kg skunk and recovered already processed 169kg of same substance.
Another raid at Ebora Camp, Ilushi in Esan South LGA led to the destruction of 2,424.945kg of cannabis, with a suspect Augustine Anyamone, 45, apprehended with 395kg skunk in a separate operation in the area.
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