Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a total of 70 parcels of cocaine, factory-packed in the walls of cocoa butter formula body cream containers, heading to London, United Kingdom.
The cocaine consignments, weighing 3.60 kilograms, were intercepted at the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, with three suspects arrested in a series of follow-up operations across the state.
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 consignments were discovered on October 14, 2025, during the examination of cargoes packaged as personal effects bound for London, UK, on an Air Peace flight.
“A cargo agent Lawal Mustapha Olakunle who presented the consignment for airfreight was promptly arrested while investigations stretching into two weeks led to the arrest of two principal suspects linked to the attempt to export the concealed Class A drug to the UK,” the statement noted.
In a follow up operation, a female healthcare worker Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah, was arrested on October 18, 2025, after 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.
Similarly, 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, Morro Local Government Area of Kwara State following credible intelligence on Tuesday, October 21.
Elsewhere (Taraba), the duo of Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22, were on Tuesday, October 21, arrested 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.
While NDLEA officers on patrol along Okene/Lokoja Highway, Kogi State, seized 162.200kg skunk (a strain of cannabis) from a truck on Friday, October 24, operatives in Nasarawa State on Wednesday, October 22, recovered 128kg of same psychoactive substance from a suspect, Abubakar Muhammad, 55, in Keffi area of the state.
In another operation, a 75-year-old grandpa Echendu Onuoka was on Wednesday, October 22, arrested at Ovum village, Obingwa LGA, Abia State with 4.7kg skunk seized from him, while a 60-year-old grandma Aukana John was nabbed with 225 grams of same substance at Apanta village, in the same LGA.
The statement added: “While 150kg 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 234.5kg of same substance at Yan aya , Saminaka in Lere LGA, Kaduna on Friday 24th October just as another set of suspects: Isah Usman, 50, and Salvation Okoler, 18, were arrested with 8,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and rohypnol along Abuja/Kaduna Highway.
“In Zamfara State, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Gummi-Anka road on Monday 20th October arrested a suspect Abubakar Ibrahim, 30, in possession of AK 47 riffle, 1,746 assorted calibres of ammunition, 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.”
Meanwhile, the Commands and formations of the Agency continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities across the country in schools, worship centres, work places, communities, and other places in the past week.
The activities included 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.
Commenting on the arrests and seizures, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, commended the officers and men of the various Commands of the Agency.
Marwa urged them to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the Agency.
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