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The agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a woman, IHENSEKHIEN MIRACLE OBEHI, who attempted to smuggle cocaine in Iran through Port Harcourt international airport, in the state of spinners. Obehi hid the drugs in his private part, in the stomach and the bag while masking in a hijab to evade the safety controls.
A statement released on Sunday by the spokesman for the Ndlea, Femi Babafemi, revealed that the suspicion was intercepted in the airport departure room on May 3, 2025, while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight for Iran via Doha, following credible intelligence.
During a research, the agents discovered three compresses of cocaine inserted in its private part, two packs hidden in the false part of its handbag and 67 pellets swallowed and hidden in the stomach.
“It was put under observation and, after four days of excretion, expelled all 67 dots. He confessed that he intended to swallow 70 pellets but he could only manage 67, choosing to hide the three remaining in his private part. The total weight of the cocaine seized by her was 2.523 kilograms”, added the note.
In a related operation, the officers of the Ndlea of Murtala Muhammed international airport, Lagos, on 9 May arrested a 22-year-old British national team, Campell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer, with two suitcases containing 35 Forte-Upro-powerful cannabis-pitting parcels 37.6 kg. He had arrived from Thailand via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight.
Slifer, who admitted the previous convictions for drug trafficking and the robbery in the United Kingdom, said she was recruited in London to take the shipment in Thailand and deliver it to Nigeria.
In the state of the Niger, a serious drug bust took place on May 7th while the agents intercepted a fuel oil tanker marked with Abj 693 XU and three other vehicles along the Suleja-Kaduna road. The vehicles were loaded with 246 Skunk bags, weighing 3,047 kilograms. Four suspects – Christopher Onyema (47), Benedict Erineruba Young (54), Chukwudi Ujue Jerry (30) and Mohammed Abdullahi Danasabe – were arrested. Further recovered vehicles included a Honda Odyssey bus (Yab 667 CZ), a Gulf bus (GWA 125 TQ) and another Honda Odyssey (Abj 230 CN).
In Lagos, on May 8, the NDLEA Officers arrested two suspicions, Eze Chekube Emmanuel and Ike Samuel Chinyerem, in Oja Amukoko, Ijora, with 109,914 Pillole di Tramadolo, Swinol and Nitrazepam.
In Kaduna, the agents on May 6 recovered 52.5 kg of Skunk from two suspicions – Lukman Sabo Urar (23) and Tukur Famadu (20) – in a bus to Gwantu, Sanga LGA.
Likewise, on May 5, along the Bode SaaDu-Jebba’s highway in Kwara’s state, Rufai Nasiru was arrested with 45,400 plumadolo pills of 225 mg.
In Bauchi, on May 6, the Ndlea officers intercepted a Jeep Toyota Tundra marked with DW 111 along the Bauchi-Gomba road, loaded with 526 blocks of skunk weight of 505 kg. Two suspicions were arrested – Isaac Onogure (37) and Ikechukwu Peter (44).
In addition, in Kano on May 10, the agents recovered 31 drums containing 775 liters of Codein syrup during a Raid in Rijiyar Zaki. Two suspicions, Hafizu Isa Uman (34) and Ismail Shehu (48), were arrested.
In the meantime, a shipment of 1.1 kg of noisy and hidden inside a pillow from Thailand, was intercepted in a corriere company in Lagos on May 6.
The agency War Against Drug Abuse (Wada) The awareness campaign has also continued in various states. The educational lessons were delivered to institutions including Federal Government College, Sokoto; Deem Life International College, Nteje, Anambra; Martins Sanda Girls Science College, Paikoro, Niger; And Restoration Power International School, Idua Eket, Akwa Ibom. In the state of Oyo, Wada’s activities reached the League of Imams and Alfas in the Central Mosque of Iseyin.
He praises the agents of the agency in all affected states and airports, president/CEO of Ndlea, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (RETD.), He praised their efforts supported to balance the reduction of the drug supply with the demand for drug demand
