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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a total of 70 parcels of cocaine factory-packed in the walls of cocoa butter formula body cream containers heading to London, United Kingdom, at the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
Three suspects have been arrested by NDLEA operatives in a series of follow-up operations across Lagos. The cocaine consignments, weighing 3.60 kilograms, were discovered on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, during the examination of cargoes packaged as personal effects going to London, UK, on an Air Peace flight.
A statement by the Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said a cargo agent, Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, who presented the consignment for airfreight, was promptly arrested, while investigations stretching over two weeks led to the arrest of two principal suspects linked to the attempt to export the concealed Class A drug to the UK.
In a follow-up operation on Saturday, October 18, a female healthcare worker, Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah, was arrested, following which Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, the Chief Executive Officer of a travel agency, Mutiu Adebiyi & Co, was arrested at his 23 Ladoke Akintola Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos office on Monday, October 20.
In a similar development, an attempt by a 35-year-old Lesotho national, Lemena Mark, to export 103.59 grams of methamphetamine concealed in a Diabeta herbs coffee tea pack to the Philippines on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu, on Wednesday, October 22, was thwarted by NDLEA officers who arrested him and recovered the illicit drug.
No fewer than 21,950 capsules of tramadol 250mg concealed inside a 100-litre water heater were recovered from a suspect, Umar Abubakar, 40, who was arrested by NDLEA operatives at Bode Saadu, Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, following credible intelligence on Tuesday, October 21.
In Lagos, NDLEA operatives, in the early hours of Sunday, October 26, raided Proxy Night Club at 7 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, where a drug party was ongoing. Over 100 suspects, including the owner of the club, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, alias Pretty Mike, were arrested and taken into custody for screening. Cartons of illicit substances, including Loud and laughing gas, were recovered from suspects at the party and the club’s store.
The raid followed intelligence about the drug party. NDLEA operatives, who were embedded in the party from 11 pm on Saturday, October 25, disrupted the gathering at 3 am on Sunday, October 26, based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
In Taraba, the duo of Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22, were arrested on Tuesday, October 21, with 450,000 pills of tramadol and exol-5 at Dan-anacha checkpoint while conveying the consignment in a truck loaded with building materials from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Mubi, Adamawa State.
Other News
While NDLEA officers on patrol along Okene/Lokoja highway, Kogi State, seized 162.200 kg of skunk, a strain of cannabis, from a truck on Friday, October 24, operatives in Nasarawa State on Wednesday, October 22, recovered 128 kg of the same psychoactive substance from a suspect, Abubakar Muhammad, 55, in the Keffi area of the state.
A mother of two, Oyonumoh Glory Effiong, who is a major distributor of Canadian and California Loud, both strong strains of cannabis, in Lekki, Ajah, Ikoyi, Victoria Island, and VGC areas of Lagos, was arrested by NDLEA operatives on Friday, October 17, during a raid at her Lekki home, where 500 grams of the illicit substances were recovered. In the Ikorodu area of Lagos, NDLEA officers on Thursday, October 23, raided the home of a suspect, Ogunyabo Adenigbigbe, at Solomade Estate, where 275 litres of skuchies, a new psychoactive substance produced with black currant drink, cannabis, and opioids, were recovered.
A 75-year-old grandfather, Echendu Onuoka, was arrested on Wednesday, October 22, at Ovum village, Obingwa LGA, Abia State, with 4.7 kg of skunk seized from him, while a 60-year-old grandmother, Aukana John, was nabbed with 225 grams of the same substance at Apanta village in the same LGA.
While 150 kg of skunk was recovered during a raid operation at Lot camp, Ikun Akoko, Ondo State, two suspects, Bashir Mohammad, 50, and Samini Ahmed Tijjani, 35, were nabbed with 234.5 kg of the same substance at Yan Aya, Saminaka, in Lere LGA, Kaduna, on Friday, October 24, just as another set of suspects, Isah Usman, 50, and Salvation Okoler, 18, were arrested with 8,600 pills of tramadol 225 mg and rohypnol along the Abuja/Kaduna highway.
At the Seme border area of Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday, October 22, nabbed Jacob Ojugbele with 55 kg of skunk at the Ashipa area of Badagry, while Amusa Oluwabukola was arrested with 121.3 litres of skuchies at Itoga, Badagry.
In Zamfara State, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Gummi-Anka road on Monday, October 20, arrested a suspect, Abubakar Ibrahim, 30, in possession of an AK-47 rifle and 1,746 assorted calibres of ammunition for AK-47 and GPMG rifles while moving them from Sokoto to Bagega forest, Anka LGA, Zamfara. Both the suspect and the exhibits have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further investigation.
With the same vigour, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces, and communities in the past week. These include: WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Asabari Grammar School, Iluwa Isale Oke, Saki West LGA, Oyo; Government Day Girls Secondary School, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi; St. Mark’s College, Nsude, Enugu; Kusaki Secondary School, Gboko North, Benue; Government Day Secondary School, Serti-Baruwa, Gashaka LGA, Taraba; Police Children School 2, Port Harcourt, Rivers; and Hajara Ahmad International School, Tudun Wada, Kano State, among others.
While commending the officers and men of MMIA, AIIA, Lagos, Kwara, Abia, Nasarawa, Kogi, Ondo, Anambra, Taraba, Kaduna, Seme, and Zamfara Commands for the arrests and seizures, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Marwa (Rtd), urged them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the Agency.
