NDLEA busts clandestine Colos lab in Lagos
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said its operatives have uncovered a clandestine laboratory where Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis, is being produced in a residential building located at Ajao Estate, Isolo, Lagos.
NDLEA said its operatives recovered large quantities of freshly cooked Colos and various precursor chemicals used in drug production.
This was announced on Sunday in a statement by Femi Babafemi, Director of Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, disclosing that a 30-year-old lab owner, Stephen Kelechi Imoh, was arrested.
Babafemi said 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. The development suggested that the dangerous psychoactive substance, which was previously imported into the country, was now being locally produced.
The effort paid off on Thursday, 30th October 2025, when NDLEA officers raided the residential apartment in Ajao Estate, Isolo, Lagos, which Kelechi had converted into a laboratory for producing Colos, a strain of cannabis made with the psychoactive plant and various chemicals. Items recovered from the apartment included freshly cooked Colos weighing 16.2 kilograms; ADB-CHMNACA Cannabinol – 1.7kg; Potassium Carbonate – 4.5kg; and Dibromobutane – 91 litres.
In another operation in Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Saturday, 1st November, 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 designer sachets and bottles of Colorado weighing 16.4kg, were recovered.
A music artist, Godspower George Osahenrumwen, whose stage name is Steady Boy, was on Thursday, 30th October, arrested by NDLEA operatives while attempting to take delivery of a large consignment of Loud, a strain of cannabis, concealed inside three cartons of bathtubs imported along with other items such as clothes and gadgets from New York, United States.
The seizure followed the arrival of the shipment at the import shed of Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, from the US aboard a DHL flight on Tuesday, 28th October. The 20-year-old music artist was apprehended at Bougain Villa, Primewater Gardens 2, Freedom Way, Lekki, Lagos, when he appeared as the consignee to take delivery of 140 bags of Loud with a gross weight of 77.20kg on behalf of a syndicate, which includes his manager, Zion Osazee Omigie (alias Zee Money), who is currently at large.
