The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, have uncovered a secret laboratory used for producing colorado, a potent synthetic strain of cannabis, inside a residential building at Ajao Estate in the Isolo area of Lagos State.
NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
He said the owner of the laboratory, 30-year-old Stephen Imoh, was arrested during a raid following months of surveillance and intelligence gathering on the local production of the psychoactive substance.
According to Babafemi, the breakthrough was recorded after operatives intercepted multiple consignments of Colorado in March and May 2025, a discovery that suggested the substance, previously imported into Nigeria, was now being produced locally.
Items recovered from the suspect include sixteen point two kilogram of freshly cooked Colos, one point seven kilogram of Cannabinol, four point five kilogram of potassium carbonate, and ninety one litres of dibromo butane, all used in the manufacture of synthetic cannabis.
Similarly, NDLEA operatives, in another operation, raided the hideout of a 28-year-old drug dealer, Afeez Salisu (alias Malu), in Mushin, Lagos, recovering 16 compressed blocks of Ghana loud and several designer sachets and bottles of Colorado weighing sixteen point four kilogram were recovered from him.
