NDLEA Arrests India-Bound Bizman with Cocaine, Recovers N3.6b Colos, Codeine in Lagos
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested one NWANKWO INNOCENT ONYEBUCHI with consignment of cocaine concealed within the side walls and railings of his traveling bag.
Forty-eight-year-old NWANKWO, who claimed to be a businessman, was intercepted at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, with over one-point-five kilograms of cocaine, on his way to New Delhi, India.
NDLEA spokesman, FEMI BABAFEMI, who made this known in a statement, said NWANKWO was involved in marble business in Lagos, before diverting to illicit drug trade for quick riches.
BABAFEMI said NWANKWO confessed during interrogation that he sold off his marble business and other assets to raise the sum of Twenty-Five Million Naira he paid for the cocaine consignment.
He said the suspect claimed that he was hoping to sell the hard drug for as much as One Hundred Million Naira in India.
In another operation, the NDLEA spokesman said operatives on Saturday August 8, 2026, raided a residential compound at 20, Hakeem Dosumu Street, Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos, where they discovered a massive stockpile of codeine-based syrup, valued at over Two-Point-Six Billion Naira.
The NDLEA spokesman said operatives also raided the residence of a fifty-five-year-old kingpin SHOREMI KAYODE, at Ipaja Estate, in the Ipaja area of Lagos, and recovered a stockpile of the Colorado synthetic strain of cannabis, with a street value of Nine Hundred and Seventy-Two Million Naira.
In Kwara, two suspects: Abubakar Adamu, 50, and Bilyaminu Nuhu, 30, were on Thursday 13th August arrested at Kam Wire area of Ilorin with 55.96kg skunk in a truck marked DKA 350 XL recovered, while two other suspects: 70-year-old grandpa Abdulfatai Oyelaran and Abdulrauf Ajadi, 50, were nabbed by NDLEA officers on patrol along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Ibadan, Oyo state on Wednesday 12th August. Recovered from their Toyota Sienna vehicle marked FFA-115KA, include: 52,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection and 6,000 ampoules of tramadol injection.
A total of 124,100 pills of tramadol; 786 bottles of codeine syrup; 2,598 tablets of rohypnol;
4,800 tablets of diazepam; 470 ampoules of pentazocine injection and 200 ampoules of tramadol injection were recovered from two suspects: Osaro Ikpoba, 43, and Samuel Godbless, 18, along Onitsha/Asaba expressway on Thursday 13th August, while another suspect, Emeka Tony, 50, was nabbed with 1,244 pieces of cartridges and monetary exhibit of eight million naira (N8,000,000) only along Kwale/Ozoro expressway on Wednesday 12th August.
A Toyota Corolla car with registration number MKD 341 EA was intercepted by NDLEA operatives along Riyom/Jos Road, Jos Plateau state where 239,490 caps of tramaforce, a brand of tramadol were recovered and a suspect Kasum Sherif arrested.
In Kano, six suspects were arrested on Monday 10th August by NDLEA operatives on patrol along Zaria-Kano Road. They include: Okodili Ibeabuchi, 60; Onyeka Vincent, 47; Nwanko Wisdom, 36; Success Chigozie, 30; Emmanuel Jude, 27; and Chinedu Peter, 39. Large consignments of opioids were recovered from them include 728,958 pills of tramadol, rohypnol, and others as well as 360 grams of cocaine, 99.8 grams of methamphetamine, 50 bottles of codeine syrup and 2.7 kilograms of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis.
Also in Kano, NDLEA operatives on Friday 14th August raided the Zawaciki Gida Dubu, Kumbotso LGA, where they recovered 171 blocks of skunk weighing 106.8kg and arrested two suspects: Mustapha Iliya, 30, and Abdulwahab Abdulrashid, 24 in connection with the seizure.
A total of 4,628.9775kg skunk was destroyed on two cannabis farms that measured 1.851591 hectares at Ugboku/Igbanke forest, Orhionmwon LGA, Edo state where a suspect Agholor Elebojie, 40, was arrested in one of the farms during a raid by NDLEA operatives on Wednesday 12th August. Another suspect, Kingsley Anigala, 28, was nabbed with 25.857kg Loud and 93 grams of meth during a raid of drug joints at Oluku area of Benin city on Friday 14th August.