{"id":2434,"date":"2023-09-24T15:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T15:38:12","slug":"ndlea-seizes-over-4-tons-of-illicit-drugs-in-abuja-5-other-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/24\/ndlea-seizes-over-4-tons-of-illicit-drugs-in-abuja-5-other-states\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA Seizes Over 4 Tons of Illicit Drugs in Abuja, 5 Other States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have successfully intercepted over four tons of illicit and controlled drugs, including consignments of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, skunk, codeine syrup, methamphetamine, and tramadol.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Advocacy at NDLEA, revealed this significant drug seizure during interdiction operations conducted across several states, including Lagos, Kogi, FCT, Jigawa, Kaduna, Sokoto, and Edo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the major seizures involved 1,194 cylinders of laughing gas, with a total weight of 2,547.2 kilograms, which were loaded in two Toyota Sienna buses. This particular operation took place on Friday, September 22, along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NDLEA continues its unwavering efforts to combat drug trafficking and ensure the safety and well-being of the Nigerian populace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have successfully intercepted over four tons of illicit and controlled drugs, including consignments of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, skunk, codeine syrup, methamphetamine, and tramadol. &nbsp; Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Advocacy at NDLEA, revealed this significant drug seizure during interdiction operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}