Tackling Nigeria’s drug crisis By Punch Editorial Board on January 27, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 21
Buba Marwa, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, listed the agency’s staggering seizures in its five-year scorecard in Abuja on 20 January.
Between 2020 and 2025, the NDLEA arrested at least 77,792 drug offenders, including 128 identified drug barons, seized about 14.8 million kilogrammes of assorted illicit drugs and secured 14,225 convictions.

