Ugandan Woman Caught at Lagos Airport for Cocaine Smuggling

A Ugandan woman has been arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos.

Thirty-four-year-old FARIDA NANSUBUGA was arrested on Tuesday last week, November 3, 2026, with of eighty-seven wraps of cocaine, weighing one-point-one-five-zero kilograms, inside a two-layered underwear strap.

The spokesman for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, FEMI BABAFEMI, said FARIDA NANSUBUGA was exposed after a body scanner during the outwards screening of passengers of a Ugandan airline flight back to her country.

In a statement, BABAFEMI noted that the woman had arrived in Nigeria on October 29, 2026, with a group of individuals for a religious exercise at The Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun Egbe area of Lagos.

However, the NDLEA spokesman said while the rest of her delegation flew back to Uganda, the suspect decided to stay behind to pick up the cocaine consignment, which she hid in her private part in a bid to smuggle it into Uganda.

He said during interrogation, the woman claimed to have collected the hard drug on behalf of a friend, identified simply as JOY, who resides in Uganda.

In another development on Friday November 6th, 2026, NDLEA operatives at the Lagos Airport intercepted eleven cartons of 250mg Tapentadol tablets from India, valued at Nine Hundred Million Naira, which were declared as 500mg Paracetamol Tablets.

Operatives also intercepted thirty-two parcels of Loud strain of cannabis, which arrived at the Lagos Airport from Houston, Texas, United States aboard a Turkish Airlines flight.

NDLEA operatives arrested a freight agent, identified as IBRAHIM ABDULWAHEED ADEWALE, who came forward to clear the consignment.

Operatives later arrested one ADEOYE SARAFA OJO from Ibadan, Oyo state, after he attempted to pick up the package, claiming that he was sent by a friend, TAIWO ANUOLUWAPO OLUSEGUN.