The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 184.5 kilogrammes of cocaine from a courier company.

The anti-narcotic agency described the operation as its largest seizure of cocaine from a courier firm in its history.

Speaking during a press briefing in Lagos on Tuesday, NDLEA chairman,
Buba Marwa, said the agency arrested two suspects over the cocaine consignment.

The suspects are Afolabi Kazeem Micheal, a socialite popularly known as KC Luxury, and Lawal Kehinde, an employee of a logistics company.

The NDLEA chairman said the seized cocaine consignment is worth $27.7 million, which is approximately N39 billion.

Marwa said after the seizure, the agency worked with the management

Nigeria’s headline inflation has dropped from 15.91 per cent in June 2026 to 15.43 per cent in July.

The report of the decline was contained in the latest consumer price index (CPI) report just released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

According to the report, food inflation is sustaining the cost of living pressure on households.

NBS says, food inflation for the month of July accelerated to 5.56 per cent from 3 75 per cent recorded in June 2026. On year-on-year basis, it rose from 17.52 per cent in July 2025 to 20.31 per cent in July 2026.

This year alone food inflation has witnessed a consecutive six months of spike, rising from 8.89 per cent in January to 12.12 per cent in February, to 14.31 per cent in March and up further to 16.06 per cent in April.

In May, it jumped 16.96 per cent before reaching 17.52 per cent in June and in July, it hit 20.31 per cent.
The problem of food insecurity in Nigeria has remained a paradox.
Although the food available in the market, but the prices have continued to rise, raising the question of what exactly could be driving rising prices.

Stakeholders believe one of the major drivers of food prices in the country is high cost of transportation arising from the high cost of fuel.

Pump prices of petroleum products, especially premium motor spirit,(PMS), otherwise called fuel, has been rising since the removal of fuel subsidy in May 2023.

The situation was made worse by the crisis in the Middle East which drove up the global crude oil prices.

One striking and perhaps uncomfortable finding in the report is the enormous disparity between states.

While national headline inflation stood at 15.43 per cent, Adamawa recorded 33.03 per cent, more than twice the national rate.

Adamawa’s food inflation was even more alarming: 51.36 per cent year-on-year.

Katsina recorded food inflation of 30.84 per cent and Zamfara 30.65 per cent.

At the other end of the scale, Borno recorded negative 0.31 per cent food inflation, while Nasarawa recorded 6.88 per cent.

In a major blow to illegal arms proliferation in the country, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed 399 seized rifles to the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu.

The Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, while addressing newsmen on Monday, explained that the service has finalised the coupling and detailed examination of a massive arms seizure at the Tincan Island Port Command, uncovering 399 fully assembled Jojef firearms alongside a critical assortment of supplementary rifle parts.

According to the customs boss, the additional rifle parts recovered include 89 frames, 16 heat shields, 10 trigger pins, three pistons, 25 locking lugs, 80 charging handles, 39 pistol-grip screws, 34 springs, 57 trigger groups, 66 foregrip latches, 45 foregrips/handguards, four pistol grips and five barrels.

Adeniyi warned that criminal networks could seek to exploit Nigeria’s borders, ports and airports ahead of the next general elections to move prohibited items into the country.

He assured Nigerians that the service would intensify surveillance and enforcement operations to prevent such activities.

“We are about entering a major election cycle, and we know that by this period, men of the underworld will want to use our borders, our ports, our airports to bring in items like this. We are going to redouble our efforts to ensure that we do not allow them to do so,” Adeniyi said.

The customs boss reaffirmed the service’s commitment to intelligence-led enforcement, stronger border surveillance and collaboration with sister security agencies, including the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) under the Office of the National Security Adviser, to identify and dismantle trafficking networks while safeguarding national security and facilitating legitimate trade.

Following the complete inventory and assessment of the illicit shipment, the CGC handed over the seized armaments to the Director General of the NCCSALW under the Office of the NSA, underscoring a unified inter-agency commitment to taking dangerous weapons entirely off the streets and ensuring that those behind the trafficking network are tracked down and brought to justice.

He added that the two suspects arrested during the preliminary investigation are being taken over by the Office of the NSA.