NDLEA ARREST INDIAN WOMAN WITH 72 PARCELS OF HEROINE DISGUISED AS CHOCOLATE AT KANO AIRPORT

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 42-year-old Indian woman, identified as Ms. Neetu Neetu at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano, for allegedly trafficking of cocaine. NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said Ms Neetu was caught on Friday, March 14, 2025, with 72 parcels of heroin factory-sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates. Babafemi said the Class-A drug consignment weighing a total of 11kilograms was recovered from Neetu’s luggage, during the inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha. He said that the arrest of Neetu signifies a growing attempt by drug trafficking organisations to hire foreign nationals, especially ladies, to move illicit drugs through the Nigerian borders. Similarly, NDLEA operatives also arrested one 45-year-old Michael Ogundele with fifty thousand pills of Tramadol concealed inside fifty-kilogram gas cylinder along Zaria-Kano Road. In Lagos State, NDLEA operatives nabbed Olumuyiwa Kolawole and Samod Adisa were with 67.5kg skunk in Mushin, while one Isah Idris was also arrested in Apapa with 4.5kg skunk; 600grams of Tramadol and 30litres of codeine syrup. The NDLEA spokesman noted that across the country in the past week, various Commands and formations continued to intensify the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) through social advocacy sensitization engagements in schools, markets, motor parts, workplaces and worship centres in the past week.