Source: Africa Publicity
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has seized over 2.4 tonnes of methamphetamine and chemical materials valued at about $362 million which is equivalent to over 480 billion Naira on the international market.
According to NDLEA, it has also dismantled a methamphetamine laboratory in Ogun State.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 and signed by its spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA disclosed that the industrial-scale laboratory was hidden inside a remote forest in Ijebu east Local Government Area (LGA) in Ogun State.
The statement said the lab was allegedly operated jointly by a Nigerian drug cartel and Mexican methamphetamine experts.
It says “Through a clinical, simultaneous operation executed by the elite operatives of our Special Operations Unit (SOU), we have successfully dismantled a sophisticated, transnational methamphetamine production syndicate run jointly by a Nigerian drug cartel and their Mexican counterparts,” adding that
“This network did not just traffic drugs; they were actively manufacturing industrial-scale quantities of highly lethal illicit substances right on our soil, threatening the national security and public health of Nigeria.”
According to the statement, NDLEA operatives launched simultaneous raids in Ogun and Lagos states on May 16 after months of intelligence gathering.
It added that “The primary target was a remote farm located at Abidagba forest, in Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State. This farm was being used as a massive, highly dangerous clandestine methamphetamine laboratory by the Anochili Innocent Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO).”
