The Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has arrested a 34-year-old South African girl with 36.65kg of cocaine on the Murtala Muhammed Global Airport (MMIA), Lagos, and a 62-year-old Nigerian-American girl with 9.45kg of hashish allegedly imported from the US.
Consistent with a observation issued on Sunday, via NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the South African suspect, Qhina Attractiveness, used to be arrested on October 7 whilst getting ready to board a Qatar Airlines flight to South Africa by way of Doha.
A seek of her two shuttle luggage exposed 30 blocks of cocaine weighing 36.65kg. The medication had been wrapped in cellophane tape, packed into seven parcels and hid with dried pepper.
NDLEA lines cocaine cargo to Lagos automobile broker
The company stated Attractiveness advised investigators she arrived in Nigeria on September 30 particularly to assemble the consignment.
- “She stated she used to be recruited via any other South African woman, who promised her R20,000 on a hit supply. She claimed she used to be offered to 2 different individuals of the syndicate: one founded in the US and the opposite a Lagos-based automobile broker,” the agecy stated.
Additional investigations resulted in the arrest of 46-year-old automobile broker Uchenna Victor Umunnakwe on October 14 at Apple Junction, In the past Palace Approach, Lagos, following surveillance at his place of abode in Shasha.
Consistent with the NDLEA, Umunnakwe admitted receiving Attractiveness on the airport, accommodation her at Santiago Lodge in Amuwo-Odofin and later shifting her to Cynarisso Lodge close to the airport forward of her departure.
Nigerian-American grandmother arrested with 9.45kg of hashish
In a separate operation, NDLEA officials arrested Anetor Gloria Ubong, a 62-year-old realtor founded in Richmond, Texas, after she arrived on the Lagos airport on a United Airways flight from Houston on October 21.
The company stated a seek of her two checked-in bins published 18 parcels of a hashish product referred to as loud, weighing 9.45kg and hid with gift-wrapping paper inside of a field.
Ubong, who holds Nigerian and United States passports, allegedly advised investigators that her daughter and the daughter’s long run brother-in-law had delivered the field to her house in the United States for onward supply in Nigeria to her daughter’s fiancé, recognized as Jibola.
NDLEA seizes opioids, hashish throughout a number of states
Past the airport arrests, the company reported a number of drug seizures and arrests around the nation.
In Lagos, NDLEA operatives arrested 41-year-old Eletu Rasheedat in Eti-Osa on October 23, getting better 5,820 diazepam tablets, 780 tramadol pills, 3.7kg of skunk and 230.25 litres of a in the community produced alcoholic-drug combination referred to as skuchies.
In Delta State, officials arrested 51-year-old Peter Ugochukwu in Warri with a big cache of pharmaceutical opioids and different elements. The seized pieces integrated 29,350 tramadol drugs, 6,620 tramadol 200mg pills, 4,116 bottles of codeine syrup, 11,340 Rohypnol pills, 3,500 diazepam pills, 300 ampoules of pentazocine injection and 200 ampoules of diazepam injection, along amounts of tramadol 225mg, Molly and Cocodamol.
Consistent with the company, the suspect and a white Hummer bus had been transferred from the Nigeria Police Pressure in Delta State.
In a separate operation at Enhere Junction, Warri, officials arrested 46-year-old Helen Bakporo Samson on October 19 with 6kg of skunk.
In Oyo State, NDLEA operatives arrested 41-year-old Fajana Dada Oluwaseyi within the Adamasingba house of Ibadan on October 19. The company stated he had previous escaped arrest after officials seized 197.8kg of hashish from his place of abode on September 16.
NDLEA’s wider anti-drug crackdown
The most recent arrests shape a part of wider NDLEA efforts to disrupt drug trafficking networks, intercept massive consignments of illicit elements and prosecute offenders throughout Nigeria.
In July 2026, Nairametrics reported that the NDLEA intercepted 1.63 million tramadol 250mg pills hid in fabricated compartments of 2 trailers alongside the Lagos-Ibadan Freeway. The company related the consignments to a transnational drug trafficking syndicate working alongside the Togo-Benin Republic-Nigeria path.
In August 2026, the company destroyed 329,865.585kg of assorted illicit drugs and psychotropic substances valued at an estimated N301.06 billion in Lagos. The workout adopted a Federal Top Court docket order and lined medication related to concluded circumstances and deserted seizures.