Bauchi will be ‘hotter’ for drug dealers – NDLEA boasts 

The Bauchi State Command of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has seized much than 2.2 tonnes of illicit drugs and intensified its crackdown connected traffickers since October 2025.

Speaking astatine a property briefing on Friday to people the 2026 United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the State Commander, Commander of Narcotics Hassan Yaqub, said the bid recovered 2,248.591 kilograms of assorted narcotics successful the past 7 months.

According to him, the seizures included Cannabis sativa, methamphetamine (ICE), Rohypnol, ace cocaine, tramadol, codeine cough syrup and different psychotropic substances.

Yaqub said the event, themed “World Drug Problem: Persisting Issues, New Challenges, Innovative Responses,” provided an accidental to reappraisal the command’s show successful combating cause trafficking and abuse.

“Today is different accidental for america to measure our operations and find whether we are doing capable successful our corporate efforts to tackle cause maltreatment and trafficking successful Bauchi State and its environs,” helium said.

The commandant maintained that cause maltreatment remains a large operator of transgression activities, stressing that families proceed to carnivore the consequences.

“There is simply a wide nexus betwixt drugs and crime. Families are losing their loved ones to cause abuse. That is wherefore everyo...