Nabs two suspects; recovers large consignments of skunk in raids
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two suspects in the foiled attempt by some drug trafficking organisations (DTO) to move illicit consignments such as Cocaine, Tramadol, Loud, Molly and others concealed in prayer beads, packs of board games, female cloths to the United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Poland, and United Arab Emirates through logistics firms and the Lagos airport.

One of them is a 43-year-old businesswoman, Jakpor Egware May who was nabbed at the Gate ‘C’ departure hall of the Lagos airport while attempting to board an Air France flight to Italy on Saturday, March 8, 2025.

They were behind some of the aborted missions at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMI), Ikeja where the couriers have already been arrested.

When she was searched, 190 parcels of tramadol 225mg and another parcel of skunk, a strain of cannabis, were recovered from her luggage. In her statement, she claimed that she bought the drugs herself, with the intention to resell them in Italy.

At the export shed of the Lagos airport, NDLEA officers on Tuesday, March 11, arrested a 60-year-old suspect, Yahaya Fatai Ayinla, while attempting to ship a cargo containing clothes used to conceal 400grams of skunk going to New York, United States of America .

At some logistics companies in Lagos, efforts by drug traffickers to export over two kilogrammes of Loud, Molly, Tramadol 365mg, 225mg hidden in Vitamin C bottles and female clothes to the U.S. were frustrated by NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI).

Other shipments of 230 grammes of cocaine concealed in prayer beads, soles of locally made shoes and packs of board games heading to Saudi Arabia, Poland and UAE were equally intercepted between Monday 10, and Wednesday March 12.

In Kano, a total of 727 blocks of compressed skunk weighing 479kg were recovered from a 40-year-old suspect Hassan Haruna who was arrested by NDLEA operatives at Chalawa area of the state on Wednesday, March 12, while no fewer than 58,300 pills of tramadol were intercepted along Kabba-Obajana highway, Kogi State in a commercial bus coming from Lagos enroute Abuja on Tuesday, March 11.

Raid operations in Kachia, Kaduna state on Thursday, March 13, led to the arrest of Idris Hamza, 21, with 4,900 pills of tramadol 225mg seized from him, just as a similar exercise in Hayin Banki area of Kaduna North LGA, on Friday, March 14, resulted in the arrest of 25-year-old Aminu Magaji from whom 2,900 tablets of tramadol 225mg were recovered.

A total of 40, 200 tablets of tramadol 225mg were recovered from the duo of Olowoko Faruk and Akeem Ridwan along Ilorin-Jebba expressway, Bode Saadu, Kwara state on Friday 14th March 14.

NDLEA operatives equally seized 21,700 capsules of same opioid from a suspect Salisu Usman along Eiyenkorin expressway, Ilorin on Thursday, March 13.

In Taraba State, NDLEA officers on Friday, March 14, arrested Polycarp Adeku, 35, at Bente road, Kurmi LGA, with 15.77Kg skunk, while in Osun state, operatives on Thursday, March 13, intercepted a commercial bus marked SGB 564 YS coming from Idumota, Lagos Island in front of King University, Ode-omu, with a total of 48.7kg Ghanaian Loud, Colorado and Canadian Loud, all strains of cannabis.

Not less than nine suspects have been arrested in connection with the seizure in Osogbo and Ile-Ife during follow up operations.

A 58-year-old suspect Ade Esan (aka Pastor) was on Tuesday, March 11, arrested along Gwagwalada expressway, FCT Abuja with 27,800 pills of tramadol 225mg, while another suspect Usman Mohammed, 26, was nabbed same day with various quantities of skunk and cocaine at Wuse zone 3 area of Abuja.

In Abia State, NDLEA operatives on Saturday, March 15, raided the Ntigha community, Isiala-Ngwa North Local Council where a 34-year-old suspect Chinaza Nwogu (aka Young Money) was arrested with 274grammes of heroin, 141grammes of methamphetamine, 2.931kg of Cannabis sativa, four grammes of cocaine and N753,015.00 monetary exhibit.