Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered a clandestine laboratory where Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis, is produced in a residential building located at Ajao Estate, Isolo, Lagos.
   
NDLEA recovered large quantities of freshly cooked Colos and various precursor chemicals for drug production, and arrested the 30-year-old lab owner, Stephen Imoh.
  
The discovery followed months of intelligence gathering on possible Colos laboratories in Lagos after NDLEA officers intercepted consignments of freshly produced Colos in March and May 2025 in the state. The development suggested that the dangerous psychoactive substance, which was previously imported into the country, is now locally produced.
  
The effort paid off on October 30, 2025, when NDLEA officers raided the residential apartment in Ajao Estate, Isolo, Lagos, which Kelechi converted to a laboratory for cooking Colos. 
 
Recovered from the apartment include freshly cooked Colos weighing 16.2 kilogrammes; ADB-CHMNACA Cannabinol (1.7kg); Potassium Carbonate (4.5kg) and Dibromobutane (91 litres).
  
In another operation in Lagos, NDLEA operatives, on November 1, raided the enclave of a 28-year-old drug dealer Afeez Salisu (alias Malu), in Mushin, where 16 compressed blocks of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis, as well as sachets and bottles of Colos weighing 16.4kg were recovered.
  
A music artiste, Godspower Osahenrumwen (alias Steady Boy) was arrested by NDLEA operatives on October 30, while attempting to take delivery of a large consignment of Loud, concealed in three cartons of bathtubs imported along clothes and gadgets from New York, United States. 
  
This followed the seizure of the shipment, which arrived at the import shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos from the U.S. aboard a DHL flight on October 28.
  
The 20-year-old artiste was nabbed at Bougain Villa, Primewater Gardens, 2, Freedom Way, Lekki, Lagos, when he showed up as the consignee to take delivery of the 140 bags of Loud with a gross weight of 77.20kg on behalf of a syndicate, which includes his manager, Zion Osazee Omigie (a.k.a. Zee Money), now at large.
  
In Kaduna, NDLEA operatives on patrol along the Abuja/Jos highway, on October 26, intercepted a consignment of 84,710 capsules of tramadol coming from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Bauchi. 

 A follow-up operation in Bauchi led to the arrest of the recipient, Musa Abdulkarim, 27. On October 28, operatives at the tollgate along the Abuja/Kaduna highway arrested Hamza Musa, 47, conveying 32,946 bottles of Akuskura, a New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) from Lagos, while Saidu Nafiu, 30, was nabbed with 131.5kg skunk at Kamfanin Zangon Aya, Igabi Local Council, Kaduna.

Three suspects: Seun Olaniyi, 24; Rauf Asogba, 28; and Ayinla Adeniyi, 50, were  arrested on November 1, at Abeokuta, Ogun State, after a team of NDLEA officers tracked their movement from Benin Republic and eventually intercepted their bus along Abiola Way, Abeokuta, with a total of 1,779kg skunk recovered from them.
  
While Jamilu Mustapha (a.k.a Last Card), 46, was arrested with 596.4kg skunk at Nasaru town, Ningi Local Council, Bauchi State, on October 29, no fewer than 532,600 pills of tramadol and exol-5 were recovered from the trio of Halilu Amiru, Rabiu Maikudi and Ibrahim Mati in a truck marked KTG- 791 ZZ at Oko-olowo, Ilorin, Kwara State, the same day.
  
In Edo State, officers on patrol along Okhokho-Isi community in Uhunmwode LGA on Wednesday, October 29, Local Council, arrested two Toyota Sienna buses marked EPE 545 EV and ABC 142 CD conveying a total of 1,455kg skunk, following credible intelligence.
  
In like manner, operatives in Ondo State on October 28, recovered 2,829kg skunk linked to a 32-year-old Mrs Ige Olarewaju from two locations at Ayede, Ogbese, while Samuel Adebayo was nabbed with 737kg of the same psychoactive substance at Adegbola junction, Akure.
  
No less than 76.5 litres of skuchies, a mixture of black currant, skunk and opioids were seized from Ige Oluwale, 50, who was arrested by NDLEA officers at Ibereko, Badagry, Lagos on Friday,October 31, while 30,370 pills of tramadol and 177 grammes of methamphetamine were recovered from Musbahu Abdullahi, 28, and Saleiman Ahmed, 25, following their arrest at Wukari, Taraba State by operatives on October 30, when they were conveying the drugs from Onitsha to Yola, Adamawa State.
  
Meanwhile, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig-Gen Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), commended the officers and men across the country for their resilience, professionalism and balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the country.
  
He vowed that the agency would continue to target and dismantle every identified drug syndicate in any part of Nigeria while denying them the benefits of the proceeds of their criminal trade by ensuring that they forfeit all their traceable assets to the Federal Government.