NDLEA intercepts ₦10. 4bn Canadian Loud at Lagos port

Large consignment of Canadian Loud intercepted at the Tincan Island Port in Lagos. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted a large consignment of Canadian Loud, a high-potency strain of cannabis, weighing 4,173. 5 kilogrammes, with a street value of ₦10,433,750,000, at the Tincan Island Port in Lagos. The interception followed intelligence gathering, sustained surveillance, and tracking of the container, which was transloaded several times after leaving Toronto, Canada, on March 28.

This was contained via a communiqué issued by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Wednesday. Babafemi indicated the container housing the illicit drug was conveyed by rail and arrived at the Lagos port on Saturday, May 9. The statement partly read, “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 kilogrammes, with a street value of Ten Billion Four Hundred and Thirty-Three Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N10, 433, 750,000. 00) only at the Tincan Island Port in Lagos. ”. “The successful interdiction of the illicit drug consignment followed painstaking intelligence gathering, sustained surveillance, and trailing of the container, which was transloaded a number of times since it left Toronto, Canada, on 28th March, conveyed through rails to Montreal, where it was loaded on board a vessel, Jakarta Express voyage, which arrived Tanger Med Port in Morocco on 15th April, discharged and reloaded on another vessel, Osaka voyage, which eventually arrived the Lagos port on Saturday, 9 May 2026.

“The over two months of monitoring the shipment by the Marine Intelligence Unit of NDLEA and the Tincan Island Strategic Command of the agency, working in close collaboration with international partners, particularly the United Kingdom Home Office International Operations. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, culminated in the eventual seizure of the consignment on Tuesday, 12 May during a joint examination of the container by NDLEA operatives, men of the Customs Service and other security agencies. ” The agency showed the drugs were concealed inside two vehicles — a used Ford bus and a Mercedes-Benz C300 car — packed within the shipping container.