A 90-year-old man was arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for selling drugs to youths in Rimi Local Government Area of Katsina State.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Friday said the suspect, Yusuf Yarkadir, under interrogation, confessed he had been selling cannabis sativa to youths in his community for eight years.
He said the suspect who failed to disclose his source of supply, however, vowed his arrest on July 17 would make him back out of the business, having tried in the past to stop the illicit trade without success.
Babafemi said narcotic officers in Ondo State Command of the agency had arrested two teenage siblings along with other suspects for dealing in assorted illicit drugs in the state capital.
He said the teenagers; Onyema Sunday, 16, and his sister, Onyema Amaka, 15, were arrested in the Car street area of Akure with 1.894 kg of Tramadol on Monday 5th July.
He also said a 23-year-old boy, Kazeem Oluyede, was nabbed in the Eru Oba area of the capital city with 300grams of cannabis and 3grams of methamphetamine.
He said a woman, Maryam Musa, 35, was also arrested in Igbara-Oke, Ifedore local council area of the state with 5.5kg of cannabis and that all the arrests were made on the same day.
Babafemi also said in Ondo State, following credible intelligence and surveillance, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday July 7, stormed the Ogbese Market, in Akure North LGA.
This, he said, was the location where Messrs Jalamia Ochonogor and Austin Uzoka were arrested with 63kg of cannabis.
Babafemi said at least seven persons had been arrested and 28.091 kg of assorted drugs such as Diazepam, Exol-5, Rophynol, Tramadol, Codeine, and cannabis recovered from them in Bauchi State.
He said those arrested in two separate raids by operatives of the Bauchi State command of the agency included: Sunday Obi, Abba Abdullahi, Samuel John, Chijioke Agu, Sani Musa, Alhaji Alhaji Baffa and Abubakar Saidu.
