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<h2>The Lagos State Police Command has<br />
re-arrested Afro singer, Ibrahim Owodunni, popularly known as <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/topic/primeboy/">Primeboy</a>, during his scheduled visit to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) at Panti, Yaba.</h2>
<p>Primeboy's arrest occurred on Tuesday morning, in the company of Ayobami Fisayo, also known as Spending, as part of ongoing investigations.</p>
<p>According to sources close to the matter that spoke with Punch, both Primeboy and Spending had been under instructions to report weekly to the SCID since the investigation into the untimely death of singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, known professionally as Mohbad, began.</p>
<p>While Spending was released after Tuesday's visit, Primeboy was detained by the police for further questioning.</p>
<p>The investigation aims to uncover the circumstances surrounding Mohbad's death, with Primeboy's involvement and potential connection being scrutinized by law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>The Lagos State Police Command has yet to release an official statement detailing the reasons behind Primeboy's re-arrest or the specifics of the allegations against him.</p>
<p>The source revealed, <em>“Both of them had gone to register their presence at SCID this morning as they have been asked to report every week. But when they got there, Primeboy was immediately handcuffed and detained. They allowed only Spending to go after he had signed. Primeboy has been locked up as I speak."</em></p>
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The Lagos State Police Command has re-arrested Afro singer, Ibrahim Owodunni, popularly known as Primeboy, during his scheduled visit to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) at Panti, Yaba.
Primeboy’s arrest occurred on Tuesday morning, in the company of Ayobami Fisayo, also known as Spending, as part of ongoing investigations. According to sources close to the matter that spoke with Punch, both Primeboy and Spending had been under instructions to report weekly to the SCID since the investigation into the untimely death of singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, known professionally as Mohbad, began. While Spending was released after Tuesday’s visit, Primeboy was detained by the police for further questioning. The investigation aims to uncover the circumstances surrounding Mohbad’s death, with Primeboy’s involvement and potential connection being scrutinized by law enforcement officials. The Lagos State Police Command has yet to release an official statement detailing the reasons behind Primeboy’s re-arrest or the specifics of the allegations against him. The source revealed, “Both of them had gone to register their presence at SCID this morning as they have been asked to report every week. But when they got there, Primeboy was immediately handcuffed and detained. They allowed only Spending to go after he had signed. Primeboy has been locked up as I speak.”
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<h2>A shipment of illegal drugs that was hidden in the engine compartment of an interstate commercial bus was discovered by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (<a href="https://naijanews.com/topic/ndlea/">NDLEA</a>) agents, just as two grandfathers were arrested for drug trafficking.</h2>
<p><strong>Naija News</strong> reports that the agency's director of media and advocacy Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, detailed that on Thursday, NDLEA operatives conducting a stop and search operation on the highway found no less than 5.2 kg of cannabis sativa and opiates in the engine compartment of an interstate commercial bus bearing the license plate VDY 187 XA along the Gbongan – Ibadan expressway, Osun state.</p>
<p>According to the report, Iorliam Sughnen Dominic, a 35-year-old bus driver who admitted to hiding anything, was detained pending additional inquiries.</p>
<p>The previous day, Wednesday, March 6, a 26-year-old lady, Obasanmi Esther Iyanu, who produces and distributes skuchies was arrested during a raid on her hideout in Osogbo, the Osun state capital.</p>
<p>At least, 16.5 litres of the illicit substance and different quantities of molly and cannabis were recovered from her during the raid.</p>
<p>The statement read, <em>“In the same vein, NDLEA operatives in Borno state have arrested a 70-year-old grandfather, Mallam Mai Gemu Adam and 65-year-old Yamama Musa for drug trafficking. They were arrested on Saturday, March 9, along with 24-year-old Abubakar Ya’u and Babagana Abubakar Ali, 28, in Maiduguri and Gamboru-Ngala respectively while 32,000 ampoules of tramadol injection were recovered from them.</em></p>
<p><em>“Same day, operatives at Geidam in Yobe state intercepted a Golf 3 salon car heading to Gagamari in Niger republic, where the occupant, Alhaji Mala Tijjani, 28, was to deliver 40 blocks of cannabis weighing 24.5kg to another dealer, while 42 cartons containing 8,400 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,260 kilograms were recovered from a driver, Mutari Ya’u, 29, at Katsina road, Kaduna on Tuesday, March 5.”</em></p>
<p>In a similar vein, one Aba Thomas was apprehended by NDLEA agents in Lagos on Wednesday in the Igbo Elerin region of the state. Upon his detention, 84 liters of skuchies, 1.1 liters of codeine syrup, 4 kg of cannabis sativa, and 800 25 mg tramadol tablets were found.</p>
<p>It added, <em>“No fewer than eight suspects were arrested on Friday where NDLEA officers raided the notorious Karu abattoir drug joint in the FCT, Abuja with 51.3kg cannabis recovered from them. Those arrested include: Buhari Muhammadu; Jamilu Muhammed; Abubakar Wappa; Yahaya Tasiu; Ezekiel Mulanda; Abba Haruna; Habibu Umar and Shamsu Lawali.</em></p>
<p><em>“In Plateau state, two suspects: Pam Thomas, 45, and Stephen Nyam, 38, were on Monday, March 4, arrested with cannabis weighing 611.428kg at Zawan, Jos South, while in Kogi state, NDLEA officers intercepted a commercial J5 bus coming from Onitsha, Anambra state to Zaria, Kaduna state on Wednesday 6th March along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway where a total of 8,580 pills of tramadol and exol-5 were seized from a suspect, Yusuf Abdullahi, 40.</em></p>
<p><em>“In Enugu, operatives on Tuesday 5th March raided some locked-up shops at the new market in Enugu metropolitan area where 371.42kg cannabis and 9.49 grams of methamphetamine were recovered.</em></p>
<p><em>“The NDLEA Commands across the country in the same vein balanced their drug supply reduction operations with War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, advocacy campaigns to schools, markets, worship centres and communities. Some of these include: WADA sensitisation lecture for 1,320 students of Government Secondary School, Madakiya, Kafanchan LGA, Kaduna; students and teachers of Kingdom Heritage School, Badagry, Lagos; students of Comprehensive Secondary School, Bichi, Kano; as well as WADA advocacy visit to Ekiti State First Lady, Dr. (Mrs) Olayemi Oyebanji and her Abia State counterpart, Mrs. Priscilla Otti, among several others.”</em></p>
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