… As NDLEA intercepts opioids, cocaine, skunk in sachets of alcoholic drinks, lady’s bags, black soap tablets going to Europe, Australia,
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 52- year-old businessman Godwin Emeka at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) Kano and recovered 127 wraps of cocaine concealed in his private part and stomach.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafeminin a statement on Sunday said the drugs were recovered after days under excretion observation.
Ejiofor who operates boutiques in Lagos and Onitsha, Anambra state, was taken into NDLEA custody upon his arrival from Bangkok, Thailand via Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 941 on Wednesday 8th October 2025 following credible intelligence.
He was taken for body scan which confirmed he ingested illicit drugs and had some concealed in his private part.
A total of 58 wraps of cocaine were immediately recovered from his pant after which he was taken for excretion observation during which he egested 69 pellets of cocaine in seven excretions bringing the total number of wraps of the class A drug recovered from him to 127 weighing 1.388 kilograms.
Three consignments of illicit drugs heading to the United Kingdom were on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th October intercepted at a courier company in Lagos by NDLEA operatives. One of the shipments, 1.74 kg of methamphetamine was recovered from blocks of glass ceramics, while another shipment contains 114 grams and 168 grams of pentazocine and tramadol injections respectively just as the third consignment contains 48 grams of tramadol capsules concealed in Vitamin C container, all going to the UK. Bids by another set of criminal syndicates to ship 2.6kg skunk and 422grams tapentadol 250mg concealed in tablets of black soap heading to Turkey; 169 grams of cocaine hidden in lady’s handbags going to Australia and 568 grams of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis concealed in containers of herbs going to United Arab Emirates were thwarted by NDLEA operatives at some courier companies in Lagos.
Meanwhile, a total of 27, 510 pills of rohypnol concealed in sachets of alcoholic drinks going to South Africa have been intercepted by NDLEA officers at the export shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos. After the initial arrest of a freight agent and a cab driver linked to the shipment, a follow up operation at Oyingbo market in Lagos led to the arrest of the mastermind, 46-year-old Samuel Omoruyi (alias Yellow) on 2nd October.
Same day, an Italy-based businessman Enehizena Augustine Uyimwen was arrested by operatives while attempting to export 3,700 pills of tramadol 225mg and 2,600 tabs of tapentadol 200mg hidden in food items to the European country. He claimed he was trafficking the opioids for someone else for a fee of Nine Hundred and Forty-Five Euros (€945).
