By Omodele Adigun
NDLEA arrests 46-year-old man with 116 wraps of heroin, cocaine at Lagos airport
Abuja, Sept. 21, 2025 – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 46-year-old man, Ofoma Sunday, with 116 wraps of heroin and cocaine ingested in this body at the Lagos airport.while returning from Brazil.
Femi Babafemi, The NDLEA Spokesman, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
The statement said Ofoma Sunday was arrested on Tuesday, September 16, on his arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil, via Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airlines flight.
It said a body scan confirmed he had ingested illicit drugs and was placed under observation.
A follow-up operation at Eliata Hotel in Amuwo Odofin, Lagos, led to the arrest of 55-year-old Nweke Jude Chuckwudi, who was designated to oversee the excretion of the drugs. Ofoma eventually excreted 111 wraps of heroin weighing 1.452 kilograms in eight batches.
The statement said Ofoma had left Nigeria for Brazil on Sept. 3 2025 to courier the consignment to Lagos for a reward of $2,500 upon successful delivery.
The NDLEA also arrested a 31-year-old Ukachukwu Frank Ikechukwu with five wraps of cocaine weighing 145 grams on Sept. 19, 2025 during inward clearance of passengers from Brazil.
The statement said he confessed to have bought nine wraps of the class A drug in Brazil and inserted all into his anus, a process he claimed took him nearly two hours.
Ikechukwu said he lost two wraps after experiencing severe anal pain in Addis Ababa and expelled more in-flight, leaving him with only five at the time of his arrest.
He said he had lived in the U.S. before being deported in 2022, and had returned to Brazil in March 2025, where he obtained residency.
The NDLEA also arrested Okolonkwo Ebere, a 38-year-old businesswoman Theresa while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha at Terminal 2 of the Lagos airport, in collaboration with Aviation Security (AVSEC) on Sunday, September 14.
It said after a thorough search, two big parcels of white crystalline substance that later tested positive to methamphetamine with a gross weight of 1.40 kilograms were recovered from her butt pad underwear.
Ebere, who claimed to be a trader in used clothing and operator of a POS business in Enugu, confessed that she had been recruited into the drug trade.
A 59-year-old suspect, Umelo Ifeanyi Venatus was also arrested by NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO export shed of the Lagos airport after they intercepted a consignment of food items concealing 40 wraps of methamphetamine weighing 2.30 kilograms bound for Hong Kong via Turkish Airlines on September 15.
Three days later, on September 18, operatives discovered 257 grams of cocaine hidden in seven phone chargers bound for New Zealand at a Lagos courier company.
NDLEA operatives in Adamawa intercepted 233,800 pills of tramadol were recovered in three separate raids while the suspects were arrested.
The drugs included 195,600 pills found in an abandoned vehicle, 27,900 pills seized from a suspect’s bedroom, and 10,300 pills recovered from another suspect at a checkpoint.
In Zamfara, 40-year-old suspect, Hammed Danladi Aliyu, was arrested with 109 bags of skunk weighing 1,099.4kg after the drugs were seized from a truck along the Gummi-Daki Takwas Road.
Also, in Yobe, two suspects were caught with 14,000 capsules of tramadol along the Damaturu-Potiskum road.
NDLEA operatives in Taraba arrested 28-year-old Anas Hamisu with three sacks of skunk weighing 25.525kg.
Two cannabis farms spanning 4.5 hectares in Atororo forest, Owan West LGA, with an estimated yield of over 11,000kg were destroyed in Edo.
NDLEA operatives arrested three suspects at the site, while 148kg of processed skunk and seeds were also recovered.
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