NDLEA Arrests Chinese National with Loud at Lagos Airport, Seizes Colos Concealed in Moi-Moi Sachets
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Chinese businessman, Liang Tak You, for attempting to smuggle 50 parcels of Loud, weighing 26.10kg, into Nigeria in two suitcases from Bangkok via Dubai, UAE at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
Liang, who arrived Nigeria from Bangkok via Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Emirates Airline flight was apprehended based on actionable intelligence on Friday, July 25, 2025.
The Director of Media and Advocacy at NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement made available to Thelensng on Sunday.
Babafemi revealed that the suspect is a Chinese national, naturalised and based in Malaysia, who had travelled to Thailand, where he picked two suitcases filled with 50 parcels of Loud before heading to Nigeria via the UAE.
“Upon his arrival at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives who were tracking his movement from his port of departure allowed him to pass through necessary protocols before picking him up on his way out of the airport,” the statement noted.
NDLEA also arrested an octogenarian grandma, Mrs. Grace Ekpeme, with over 3kg skunk following intelligence on her drug dealing activities in the early hours of Saturday, July 26, at Edet-Nsa Street, Base Site, Calabar South, Cross River State.
In Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday, July 23, intercepted a suspect Chidi Agbafo along Epe-Ajah Expressway while taking consignments of 21.7kg Colorado, some of which were packaged in moimoi cooking sachets and 3.8litres of codeine based syrup in a commercial bus to deliver in Warri and Oghara, Delta State.
Babafemi disclosed that a total of 101kg Canadian Loud factory packed in 202 tins of imported food item labelled ‘Bean Salad Mix’ and concealed in two Toyota Sienna buses in a container that came from Canada, were recovered at the Apapa seaport in Lagos
He stated that the discovery was made during a joint examination of the container by NDLEA officers, men of Customs Service, and other security agencies on Friday, July 25.
Similarly, no fewer than 71,000 pills of tramadol, diazepam and exol-5 were recovered from Usman Musa by NDLEA operatives on patrol along Abuja-Kaduna Highway on Wednesday, July 23, when the suspect was travelling with the consignment of opioids in a commercial bus going to Kano.
In Borno, a 30-year-old lady Binta Usman was on the same day arrested by NDLEA officers who recovered 30.1kg skunk from her house at Muna Moforo area of Maiduguri. A follow up operation led to the arrest of her accomplice Bala Abdullahi in the same area of the Borno State capital on Friday, July 25.
Elsewhere (Ondo State), three brothers —Nanna Ozirinye, Chizom Ozirinye, and Maxwell Ozirinye were arrested when NDLEA operatives raided a cannabis plantation at bending corner forest, Idoani, Ose Local Council Area of the state on Saturday, July 26. The operatives destroyed 2,500 kilograms of skunk on an hectare of land and recovered already processed 121.4kg of same psychoactive substance.
In another operation, NDLEA officers in Edo State on Wednesday, July 23, raided the Asakpa community in Benin City, where they arrested a 26-year-old lady Bright Sunday Okon and recovered various quantities of Colorado, Loud, Arizona and skunk (all strains of cannabis) as well as Methamphetamine from her.
NDLEA operatives also recovered a total of 105.4kg skunk from an abandoned Honda car marked ABC 204 KM in Keffi, Nasarawa State, while their counterparts in Niger State on July 21 arrested a suspect Bashir Abdullahi with 6,400 pills of tramadol 225mg at Kasuwan Gwari area of Minna.
The spokesperson mentioned that a notorious drug dealer Jamiu Omolaja was taken into custody and 113kg skunk retrieved from his enclave in Ifo, Ogun State on Thursday, July 24 after a violent resistance and attack on NDLEA operatives by members of his gang.
The statement added: “A total of 10,910 capsules of tramadol were seized from a suspect Adamu Adamu (a.k.a Dankyado) by NDLEA officers on patrol along Gombe-Bajoga road, Gombe State on Saturday 26th July, while operatives in Kogi State on Thursday 24th July intercepted a consignment of skunk concealed inside garri, dried scent leaves, and other food items along Okene-Lokoja highway.
“A follow-up operation in Abuja led to the arrest of 27-year-old Kindness Bala who was planning to travel to Katsina State with the cargo and later to Qatar. Similarly, operatives in Kogi on Saturday 26th July recovered 23,600 pills of tramadol, 300 ampoules of pentazocine injection and 700 grams of skunk from a truck at a motor park in Ayingba area of the state.”
Meanwhile, the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) social advocacy activities by NDLEA Commands continued across the country in the past week.
The activities included WADA sensitisation lecture delivered to students and staff of Komu/Babaode High School, Babaode, Itesiwaju LGA, Oyo State; Beacon Christian Academy, Ngodo, Afikpo LGA, Ebonyi; Government Day Secondary School, Araba, Illela, Sokoto; and Government Junior College, Agege, Lagos.
The Anambra State command of NDLEA equally paid WADA advocacy visit to the traditional rulers of Awka community, Obi Gibson Nwosu, Ezeuzu 11 and Ukpo community, Igwe Robert Eze, Okofia VI, among others.
Reacting to the arrests and seizures, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, commended the officers and men of MMIA, Apapa, Lagos, Cross River, Edo, Ondo, Nasarawa, Borno, Niger, Ogun, Gombe, Kaduna and Kogi Commands.
Marwa also praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for pursuing a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
