A 42-year-old Angolan businessman was nabbed at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) in Kano while attempting to traffic cocaine to Turkey.

The businessman was identified as Mbala Dajou Abuba, who hails from the Zaire province in Angola.

Abuba was intercepted by NDLEA operatives on Tuesday, 25th February 2025, while attempting to board Egypt Air flight MS 880 to Istanbul, the capital of Turkey, via Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

A body scan result revealed that he had ingested wraps of cocaine.

Upon this discovery, he was placed under excretion observation. Thereafter, the Angolan businessman excreted 120 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.829 kilograms in seven excretions.

Abuba revealed in a statement that he was operating a delivery service before he began drug trafficking.

The Director of media and advocacy for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, revealed the details of his arrest in a statement.

He added that operatives of the agency also intercepted drug traffickers and seized illicit drugs in Delta, Edo, Oyo, Kano, Osun, Borno, Zamfara and Kwara.

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On February 24, an auto spare parts dealer, Okeke Ebuka Igwe, was intercepted while attempting to send 1.10kg cocaine to Angola through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos.

Igwe hid the illicit substance in vehicle propellers. While being interrogated, He confessed to NDLEA officials that he sold ASPANDA, Trade Fair Complex, Ojo area of Lagos.

In a similar operation, another suspect, who was identified as Ezechi Iyke Cyprian, was caught in Owerri, Imo State, with a large consignment of cocaine.

“The bid by another suspect, Ezechi Iyke Cyprian to move a large consignment of cocaine weighing 5.40 kilograms to Owerri, Imo state in his Toyota Sienna bus on Sunday 23rd February was frustrated by operatives of a special operations unit of NDLEA who arrested him following weeks of intelligence and surveillance,” Babafemi noted.

Other arrested suspects from different operations include Mustapha Shettima, Ayuba Mustapha, Sunday Ogbu, Lawali Mohammed, Oikelomen Osere Monday, Glory Iroyo, Augustine Subaru, Ukoba Malachukwu, Odalonu Emmanuel, Itoje Safe, Esuabom Macaulay and Bamidele Joseph.