Nearly 10,000 kilograms of cannabis seized in raids across 12 states in Nigeria

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The cannabis finds included 99 bags of weed and three bags of seeds weighing 1,286 kilograms, 410 kilograms of marijuana, 50 bags of pot weighing 623 kilograms and 266.8 kilograms of bud. A pregnant woman in Nigeria has landed in hot water after being found with cannabis. In recent days, the NDLEA carried out raids across 12 states and ended up arresting 29 people and seizing, among other things, 9,437.6 kilograms of cannabis and 138,053 tablets of pharmaceutical opioids. Additionally, four cannabis farms were shut down and nine Ghanaians were each convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison after earlier attempting to smuggle just almost 10,845 kilograms of cannabis into Nigeria by sea. Fifty-six blocks of illegal cannabis, weighing about 31 kilograms, were recovered from a man and a married pregnant woman in Potiskum, the largest city in Yobe State, according to Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

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A pregnant woman in Nigeria has landed in hot water after being found with cannabis.

Fifty-six blocks of illegal cannabis, weighing about 31 kilograms, were recovered from a man and a married pregnant woman in Potiskum, the largest city in Yobe State, according to Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The cannabis was found during a raid, the agency reports.

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