NDLEA Arrests 2 Nigerians, 2 Angolans for Cocaine Trafficking in Lagos, Abuja, Kano

Feb. 15, 2026, 4:50 p.m.

A convicted and jailed drug kingpin, identified as OLASHUPO MICHAEL OLADIMEJI, has been fingered in a fresh plot to smuggle cocaine to the United Kingdom from his prison cell at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre, Lagos. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said it foiled OLADIMEJI’s plot following the interception of one-point-one kilograms of cocaine concealed in a consignment of Garri, which was meant for delivery in London, through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. OLADIMEJI is alleged to have orchestrated the plot through a logistic company registered in his name and operating from the Mafoluku area of Oshodi. However, the plot was exposed on Thursday, February 12, when NDLEA officers intercepted a compressed block of cocaine inside a sack of Garri at the export shed of the Lagos airport. NDLEA’s Head of Media and Advocacy, FEMI BABAFEMI, said a staff of OLADIMEJI’s logistic company, ADEDEJI YUSUF GBOLAHAN, who presented the package for export was promptly arrested. BABAFEMI, who confirmed the development in a statement, said OLASHUPO is presently serving a five-year jail term at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre, Lagos. He said the convict was arrested in 2025 and successfully prosecuted over the smuggling of seventeen-point-nine kilograms of cocaine. Similarly; the NDLEA also arrested a Nigerian man based in China, as well as two Angolan nationals for the smuggling of two hundred and thirty-six wraps of cocaine at the international airports in Abuja and Kano. NDLEA spokesman, FEMI BABAFEMI, said thirty-four-year-old IBEANU VINCENT CHUKWUDULUE was arrested at the Abuja airport on his way to China, with fifty-two pellets of cocaine, weighing over seven hundred and thirty-five kilograms. BABAFEMI identified the Angolan drug traffickers as fifty-year-old MBANDU MARTINS MAKIADI, and equally fifty-year-old NGOMA WILSON FERNANDO, who were arrested at the Kano International Airport while traveling to Turkey. He said both MBANU expelled seventy-six wraps of cocaine, while NGOMA expelled one hundred and eight pellets of cocaine. The NDLEA spokesman said the Angolan suspects claimed they were recruited by a Luanda-based automobile spare parts dealer who promised to pay them Three Thousand US Dollars each upon successful delivery of the consignments in Turkey.

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