Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a large consignment of Canadian Loud, a high-potency strain of cannabis, weighing 4,173.5 kilograms with a street value of N10,433,750,000 at the Tincan Island Port in Lagos.
Director of Media and Advocacy at NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement on Wednesday.
Babafemi said the successful interdiction followed painstaking intelligence gathering, sustained surveillance, and trailing of the container since it left Toronto, Canada on March 28.
It was conveyed through rails to Montreal, where it was loaded on board a vessel, Jakarta Express Voyage, which arrived at Tanger Med Port in Morocco on April 15. It was then discharged and reloaded on another vessel, Osaka Voyage, which arrived at Lagos Port on Saturday, May 9, 2026.
Babafemi said over two months of monitoring the shipment by the Marine Intelligence Unit of NDLEA and the Tincan Island Strategic Command, working with international partners including the United Kingdom Home Office International Operations, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, led to the seizure on Tuesday, May 12, during a joint examination with the Nigeria Customs Service and other security agencies.
The development comes barely four days after NDLEA operatives raided a Lekki mansion used as a stash house, where 4,000 parcels of the same psychoactive substance weighing 2,326 kilograms worth over N5,815,000,000 were recovered.
The illicit drug consignments from Canada were professionally packed and concealed inside two vehicles: a used Ford bus and a Mercedes Benz C300 car, stashed within the shipping container.
Speaking during the handover of the exhibits by the Nigeria Customs Service at the port in Lagos on Wednesday, May 13, the NDLEA’s Director of Seaports Operations, ACG Ibinabo ArchieAbia, said the achievement shows the effectiveness of inter-agency cooperation, international collaboration, and intelligence-driven operations in combating transnational organized crime and illicit drug trafficking.
Reacting to the development, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), commended the officers of the Tincan Command and the MIU for their vigilance and professional conduct. He said the volume of recent Loud seizures highlights a coordinated attempt by international drug syndicates to flood the Nigerian market with synthetic strains of cannabis.
“This second massive seizure in less than a week is a clear message to the international syndicates who think they can use our ports as entry points for their soul-destroying trade, that the synergy between NDLEA and Customs Service as well as other security agencies and our international partners like the Canadian Royal Mounted Police, the UK-HOIO and the US DEA is yielding fantastic results. We will not rest until every link in this supply chain is broken and those behind these shipments are brought to justice,” Marwa stated.