Uncovers UK-bound cocaine in cream containers, meth in water heater
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday, raided a drug party at Proxy Night Club in Victoria Island, Lagos, and arrested o plver 100 suspects, including the club owner, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu alias Pretty Mike, and took them into custody for screening.
Cartons of illicit substances, including Loud and laughing gas, were recovered from the 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 11pm on Saturday, disrupted the gathering about 3.00am, yesterday, based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
The agency also uncovered 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) in Ikeja, Lagos, and arrested three suspects in a follow-up operations across Lagos.
The cocaine consignments weighing 3.60 kilogrammes were discovered on October 14, 2025 during the examination of cargoes packaged as personal effects going to London, on an Air Peace flight. A cargo agent, Lawal 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.
In a follow up operation on October 18, a female health worker, Deborah Ogunmuyide, was arrested following which 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.
Relatedly, the attempt by a 35-year-old Lesotho national, Lemena Mark, to export 103.59 grammes of methamphetamine concealed in a Diabeta herbal coffee tea pack to the Philippines on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA) Enugu on 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 Council of Kwara State following credible intelligence on October 21.
In Taraba, 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 the same psychoactive substance from a suspect, Abubakar Muhammad, 55, in 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 has been arrested by NDLEA operatives on Friday, October 17, during a raid at her Lekki home where 500 grammes of the illicit substances were recovered.
In the Ikorodu area of Lagos, NDLEA officers on Thursday, 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.
At the Seme border area of Lagos, NDLEA operatives nabbed Jacob Ojugbele with 55kg skunk at 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 Abubakar Ibrahim, 30, in possession of an AK 47 rifle and 1,746 assorted ammunition for AK-47 and GPMG rifles while moving them from Sokoto to Bagega forest, Anka Local Council, 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 to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.
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/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig-Gen Mohamed Buba 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.
