The number of illicit drugs seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) stood at a whopping 309,713kg in 2017 with cannabis and Tramadol accounting for over 90 percent, a report from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on drug seizures and arrest statistics shows.
Cannabis, popularly known as Indian hemp, had a larger chunk of the total drugs seized by the NDLEA to the tune of 191,353kg, representing about 61.8 percent of the total drugs seized. This compares to the more than 4 tonnes (4,000kg) cannabis herb seized in 2016, according to the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB), a United Nations body for the execution of international drug control conventions.
Next was tramadol accounting for 31 percent (96,136kg) of the total drugs seized.
Other drugs which collectively accounted for 7.3 percent of the total drugs seized in the period under review included cough syrup with codeine (9,772.6kg), cocaine (92.4kg), heroin (85.44kg), benzodiazepine (1,783.4kg), methamphetamine (782.5kg), ephed (168.9kg), opiods (221.4kg), opiates (1.36kg), barbiturate (1.34kg), and others (9,313.46kg).
The NDLEA, according to INCB’s report released earlier in 2018, noted that between November 2016 and November 2017, the total number of methamphetamine seized was 40kg.
Edo State (45,338kg) recorded the highest number of drugs seized. This was closely followed by Ondo, Kano and Plateau States which had 32,729kg, 18,654.5kg and 17,674.7kg of drugs seizure, respectively.
Zamfara (87.2kg), Ebonyi (196kg) and Bayelsa States (253kg) had the lowest drugs seizure in the period under review.
A total of 10,290 persons were arrested in an attempt to rid the country of perpetrators of the illicit drugs.
“10,290 arrests were made in 2017. 9,626 were male while 664 were female. 1,605,” the report revealed.
While Katsina (732 persons), Jigawa (646 persons) and Kano States (635 persons) had the highest number of arrests, Nasarawa (58 persons), Ekiti (84 persons), Gombe (94 persons) and Imo States (94 persons) had the lowest number of arrests.
A breakdown of the number of drugs seized at the different entry points into the country indicates that Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos recorded the highest total drug seizure of 1,266.4kg. Others are Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja (32.3kg), Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano (36.3kg), Port Harcourt International Airport, Port-Harcourt (3.6kg), and Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu (60.7kg).
Total drugs seizure at the Seme-Lagos border was 17,015kg, while Idiroko-Ogun border recorded 361.7kg.
Seizure at the Tincan Port, Lagos amounted to 4.50kg, Apapa Port, 0.40kg and Port-Harcourt Port recorded 0.32kg.
The problem of drug abuse especially among youths has become a worrisome issue in modern times. Nigeria ranks as one of the countries in the world with the highest rate of drug abuse due to the proliferation of illicit drugs such as cannabis, heroin, cocaine, etc.
It becomes even more of serious concern considering its nexus with youth delinquencies, organized crimes, gangsterism, kidnapping, and other social vices that have acted as a clog in the wheel of progress of the society.
Similarly, prices of pain relievers have increased astronomically over increased demand, especially from youths, who use them without doctor’s prescription.
A recent market survey carried out by BusinessDay in a number of pharmaceutical and drug retail outlets across Lagos showed that prices of some pain relievers have increased 1,000 percent in the last two years.
Most notably, Tramadol, an over the counter pain medication, is now over 1,000 times more expensive, selling for N1,500-N3,000 a pack depending on the location, as against N300 as at 2009. Oxycodone (OxyContin) sells in some of the shops visited for close to N3,000 as against N250 two years ago. Codeine is also around the same range.
http://www.businessdayonline.com/cannabis-tramadol-top-drugs-seized-ndlea-2017/
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nice work from NDLEA

Nice

I wonder what will be their new illegal performance enhancing drugs

Those who do drugs are fools

Cheii

I buy all your iTunes card of any denomination bring them all

Drug Lords everywhere

[color=#006600][/color]who NDLEA help

Buhari .....hmmmm!

May God save us....awon wobe[color=#990000][/color]

everyone wants to be a science student.
i even heard people now sniff glue and petrol.

SMH

poor statistical analysis.

Just minding my business.

I Hope Bokoharam will not increase their attacks due to non availability of codeine and Tramadol

the problem is the lack of regulation and pathways
if you have ever experienced severe pain, then you will value this meds via prescription
we shouldnt throw out the baby with the bath water, regulate not ban

TM to the core

North top the list followed by West, southeast is the least

Nice work NDLEA.

West

Southsouth

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West

And behind every single drug syndicate in this country is an Ibo man. We saw this of recent when the BBC exposed the Emzor codeine cartel

States from Southsouth

Roger3D:
And behind every single drug syndicate in this country is an Ibo man. We saw this of recent when the BBC exposed the Emzor codeine cartel

That's what media houses made you guys believe, the statistics is from NDLA not me

NDLEA is doing a very bad job. Who ever is incharge must be replaced with immediately effect.

post=67391305:

That's what media houses made you guys believe, the statistics is from NDLA not me

East, west, north or south as long as its drugs, an Ibo man is behind it

post=67390062:
North top the list followed by West, southeast is the least

they're the east in d west, north and S.S doing d drugs.

Roger3D:
East, west, north or south as long as its drugs, an Ibo man is behind it

What Western media made you guys believe, there are many types of illicit drugs, if you said most lucrative cocaine which Igbo's dominant I said yes, others are dominated by north and west.

Read this
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is a Federal agency in Nigeria charged with eliminating the growing, processing, manufacturing, selling, exporting, and trafficking of hard drugs. The agency was established by Decree Number 48 of January 1990. The NDLEA is present in international airports, seaports and border crossing. It tries to eradicate cannabis by destroying plantings. The NDLEA also targets the leaders of narcotics and money laundering organizations.

Drug cultivation

Former Chairman of NDLEA, Alhaji Ahmadu Giade, described illicit drugs as "alien" to Nigeria. Cannabis, now locally grown in most states of the federation, was introduced to the country by foreigners. Ms Dagmar Thomas, the Country Representative of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), says Nigeria was one of the largest cannabis growers in Africa, with over 8% of the population abusing cannabis. Annual cannabis seizures increased from 126 metric tones in 2005 to 210 metric tones in 2007.[2]

The NDLEA describes the South West region of Nigeria as one of the main centers of illicit drug production in the country. 196.5 acres (0.795 km2) of cannabis farmland was discovered and destroyed in the region in 2008. In particular, Edo State has the highest rate of seizure of cannabis in the country. In April 2009, the NDLEA confiscated 6.5 tones of marijuana from the home of a man in Ogun State who claimed to be 114 years old.[5] In September 2009 the NDLEA reported destroying a 24 hectare Cannabis Plantation in a forest reserve in Osun State.

In January 2009, the NDLEA publicly burned 5,605.45 kilograms of drugs seized from traffickers in the historic town of Badagry, Lagos. The bonfire included 376.45 kilograms of cocaine, 71.46 kilograms of heroin and 5,157.56 tonnes of cannabis.

Drug trafficking

The USA has donated full body scanning machines for the Lagos, Kano, Abuja and Port Harcourt international airports and has provided security training and orientation airport officers. The machines have proved effective in catching smugglers and couriers taking cocaine from Latin America to Europe by way of Nigeria. Between 2006 and June 2008 over 12,663 suspected drug dealers were arrested, with seizure of over 418.8 metric tonnes of various hard drugs.[8] For example, in July 2009 a woman about to board a KLM flight at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport was arrested by NDLEA officers and later excreted 42 wraps of cocaine, weighing 585 grams. In September 2009, the NDLEA arrested a Guinean woman en route from Brazil to Europe with 6.350 kg of pure cocaine at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos.

In 2008 Nigeria was certified by the United States of America in the anti-narcotic crusade, for the eight successive time. President George Bush said that Nigeria had made significant progress in counter narcotics and had effectively co-operated with the United States on drug-related and money laundering cases.In Katsina State alone, one hundred people were convicted for drug offences from January to May 2008, and 358 people were arrested for drug offences in this period.

Drug Barons

Speaking of efforts to go after the organizers of the trade, Ahmadu Giade, chairman/chief executive officer of NDLEA in 2008 said the agency had seized N270 million worth of shares from drug barons, as well as cars, houses and other property worth hundreds of millions of Naira.[11]

After a September 2009 meeting with the head of the Nigerian Immigration Service to discuss exchange of biometric data of convicted drug barons and traffickers, Giade said cooperation between the agencies would help deny passports to convicted drug barons.[13]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Drug_Law_Enforcement_Agency