NDLEA nabs woman with illicit drugs in underwear
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a businesswoman, Okolonkwo Ebere Theresa, with illicit drugs concealed in her underwear.
The woman was intercepted on September 14 while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha, Qatar at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
A total of 1.40 kilograms two big parcels of methamphetamine was recovered from her butt pad underwear.
Theresa claimed she was into trading in clothes and has just been recuited into the illicit drugs business.
The NDLEA also said its operatives at the airport have intercepted two Brazil returnees, Ofoma Sunday and Ukachukwu Frank Ikechukwu, who excreted a total of 116 wraps of heroin and cocaine they had ingested.
Ofoma, who was arrested on September 16, said he left Nigeria for Brazil on 3rd September to courier the consignment to Lagos for a reward of $2,500 upon successful delivery of the 111 wraps of heroin he ingested.
The Brazil returnee, Ikechukwu, was arrested at the Lagos airport as he arrived Lagos on September 19.
“He was taken for body scan which confirmed illicit drug insertion. Under excretion observation, Ukachukwu expelled five big wraps of cocaine weighing 145 grams,” the NDLEA said in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Femi Babafemi.
The Agency said Ikechukwu travelled to Brazil in 2017, and in 2020 moved to the United States where he was arrested for immigration offences, detained for over a year before being deported to Nigeria in 2022. He returned to Brazil in March 2025, where he currently works, having already obtained a residency permit.
Another drug trafficker, Umelo Ifeanyi Venatus, 59, was taken into custody over 40 wraps of methamphetamine with a total weight of 2.30 kilograms concealed in food items, while seven pieces of phone charger going to New Zealand were found to contain 257 grams of cocaine.
The NDLEA has also recorded successful operations drug dealers across the country.
In Adamawa, no fewer than 233,800 pills of tramadol were recovered in three raids with two suspects arrested.
“A total of 195,600 pills of the opioid were recovered from an abandoned Toyota Sienna vehicle in Mayo Belwa area of Yola South on Wednesday 17th September, while a suspect Rita Zira was nabbed in Jambutu area of Jimeta Yola with 27,900 pills of tramadol discovered in her bedroom. Another suspect, Halilu Abubakar, 22, was arrested with 10,300 pills of same substance by NDLEA officers at Namtari checkpoint, Yola on Saturday 20th September.
“No less than 109 bags of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 1,099.4 kilograms were seized from a suspect Hammed Danladi Aliyu, 40, by NDLEA operatives supported by members of the Community Protection Guards (CPG) along Gummi-Daki Takwas road, Zamfara state while conveying the consignment in a Mitsubishi Canter truck marked LRN 568XB to a village called Company in Gummi LGA on Saturday 20th September,” the statement added.
Also, two suspects, Babangida Usman and Ismail Ibrahim, were arrested with 14, 000 capsules of tramadol along Damaturu-Potiskum road in Yobe state, while NDLEA operatives in Taraba on Wednesday September 17 nabbed one Anas Hamisu, 28, with three sacks of skunk that weighed 25.525kg, at Garba-Chede in Bali LGA.
“In Edo state, two cannabis farms on 4.532025 hectares located at Atororo forest in Owan West LGA with an estimated yield of 11,330.0625kg were on Wednesday 17th September destroyed by NDLEA officers who also recovered eleven bags of processed skunk and seeds weighing 148kg.
“Suspects arrested at the plantations include Mathew Onoja, 56; Moses Thomas Male, 18; and Friday Uchenjin, 38.”
