NDLEA intercepts China-bound businesswoman, pins down N12.3bn Loud 

Iwebema who claims she travels to China to buy items for sale in Nigeria, was arrested on Sunday 21^st June 2026 at the departure hall of terminal 2 of the Lagos airport based on credible intelligence.

A search of her check-in luggage led to the discovery of four large parcels of cocaine concealed in false bottom professionally created in her bag. The parcels of the class A drug found hidden in the bag have a combined weight of 7.5 kilograms.

In another major interdiction operation, NDLEA operatives discovered 195 big sacks of Canadian Loud cannabis from Toronto, Canada at the Apapa port on Monday 22^nd June.

The NDLEA has been tracking the container for over four weeks, and on Wednesday 23^rd June 2026, a total of 4,959 kilograms of the illicit drug consignment worth N12.39 billion in street value, were recovered from the container.

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in FCT Abuja in a joint operation with their colleagues in Anambra have unraveled a syndicate which plants illicit drugs in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers in motor parks.

Their trick came to the fore when operatives in Abuja intercepted a consignment of methamphetamine in a Sienna bus coming from Nnewi Anambra State at Abaji, FCT on Saturday 20th June, 2026.

During a search of the bus, a waybill package was recovered containing whitish substances suspected to be methamphetamine concealed inside a black nylon bag, which was also put into another sack of clothes with the phone number of the receiver written on it.

A follow up operation conducted same day led to the arrest of the supposed receiver of the waybill Mrs. Gloria Peter at Utako motor park.

She however vehemently denied knowledge and ownership of the package in her luggage.

This led to a swift arrest of the loaders of the Sienna bus in Nnewi where one of them revealed that the drug package was put into the woman’s bag by him on the directive of the driver of the bus Abdurrazak Isah.

His revelations made the driver to open up and mentioned one of his passengers Onyebuchi Victor Okoye as the actual owner of the drug.

Onyebuchi was then picked up at Utako, FCT during another follow up operation. The illicit consignment weighed 467.7grams.

Similarly, operatives of a Special Operations Unit of NDLEA on Saturday 27th June acting on credible intelligence, arrested 57-year-old Ikechukwu Uwakwe at a motor park in Iddo, Lagos with 209.50kg Scottish Loud, a strong strain of cannabis. The illicit consignment was being taken to Enugu when it was intercepted.

Also, two nationals of Benin Republic: Hossou Tito Julien, 30; and Mancellim Dossou, 19 as well as a Nigerian, Jackson ThankGod, have been arrested by NDLEA operatives following credible intelligence.

They were nabbed on the Mile 2 bridge when their truck conveying illicit drug consignment from Togo through Benin Republic was intercepted on Sunday 21^st June.

A thorough search of the truck led to the recovery of 558,900 pills of Tramadol 250mg, concealed in a fabricated compartment of the vehicle.

Two suspects, Lucky Abonga and Osas Azamobo, were also arrested along Lagos–Ibadan expressway on Friday 26^th June while transporting 118kg skunk among other legitimate goods in a truck, which left Ebute Ero area of Lagos Island, heading to Onitsha, Anambra State.

In another operation in Lagos, Helen Ese Idiji, 40, and Rashidat Sa’adullah, 53, were arrested on Friday 26^th June at 15 Olumokun Street, Amukoko, with 28.8 kilograms of skunk recovered from them.

Investigation revealed that the principal suspect, Helen, stores her illicit consignments with the second suspect, Rashidat, from where she distributes to her customers.