The operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) have intercepted a 42-year-old Indian lady, Neetu Neetu, on the Mallam Aminu Kano Worldwide Airport (MAKIA), Kano, with 72 parcels of heroin hid in wafer wraps and packaged as sweets.
The company’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, mentioned in a press release issued on Sunday that the category A drug consignment, weighing 11 kilograms, was found in Neetu’s baggage throughout a radical search.
The interception adopted credible intelligence and was carried out through the inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand, through Vietnam and Doha on the airport’s arrival corridor on Friday, March 14, 2025.
Reacting to the arrest, NDLEA Chairman/Chief Govt Officer, Mohamed Buba Marwa, said that drug trafficking organizations are more and more trying to recruit international nationals, together with white ladies, to smuggle illicit substances via Nigeria’s borders.
Nevertheless, he emphasised that the NDLEA’s use of superior know-how and proactive intelligence continues to frustrate such efforts.
In one other interdiction operation in Kano, NDLEA officers on Thursday, March 20, arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Michael Ogundele, at Gadar Tamburawa, alongside Zaria-Kano Street, with a 50-litre metal gasoline cylinder.
Following credible intelligence, welding instruments had been used to chop open the cylinder, revealing 50,000 tablets of tramadol 225mg hidden inside.
Equally, on Wednesday, March 19, Sunday Ogar, 40, was arrested in Gunduwawa with 27kg of skunk (a potent pressure of hashish), whereas on Tuesday, March 18, Khadijah Abdullahi, 40, was caught with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Lungun Bulala Yalwa.
In Lagos, the NDLEA apprehended Olumuyiwa Kolawole and Samod Adisa in Mushin with 67.5kg of skunk, whereas one other 100.8kg of the identical substance was recovered from the shop of two fleeing suspects in Anifowoshe, Mushin.
Moreover, Isah Idris was arrested in Apapa on Tuesday, March 18, with 4.5kg of skunk, 600 grams of tramadol 225mg, and 30 litres of codeine syrup.
On the identical Tuesday, Yahaya Mohamed was apprehended in Ikotun with varied portions of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.
In the meantime, NDLEA instructions throughout the nation have intensified their Conflict In opposition to Drug Abuse (WADA) marketing campaign via sensitization applications in faculties, markets, workplaces, and spiritual facilities.
Latest engagements embody lectures at Chrisland School, Ikeja, Lagos; Hakimi Secondary School, Mokwa, Niger State; Marist Complete Faculty, Nteje, Anambra State; Ikole Metropolis Faculty, Ekiti; Authorities Day Secondary School, Sunane, Sokoto; and Authorities Day Secondary School, Jada, Adamawa.
Commending the efforts of NDLEA operatives at MAKIA, Lagos, and Kano, Marwa expressed satisfaction with the company’s balanced method to each drug provide discount and public consciousness campaigns, urging officers to stay steadfast of their duties.
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