The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) stopped 12 packages of cocaine hidden in the false bottoms of food flasks at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) export shed in Ikeja, Lagos.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, said this in a statement on Sunday. He said the illegal package, which weighed 2.80 kilograms, was on its way to the UK on a Virgin Atlantic flight.
The statement said that the drugs were stopped on April 9, 2026, and two cargo agents, Ama Obinna Ufeim, 33, and Ogabi Monday Akorede, 39, were arrested. After more investigation, the alleged sender, a 52-year-old freight forwarder named Agoro Tajudeen Moninuola, was arrested.
On April 8, NDLEA agents found 2.90 kilograms of “loud,” a strong strain of cannabis, hidden in snack packs on a Delta Airlines flight from the United States to the airport’s import shed.
Animashaun Moshood Adetunji and Mercy Gabriel Oluwasegun, two cargo clearing agents, were the first to be arrested. Later, in Ogba, Lagos, Saheed Adeshina Adegoke, a 29-year-old fashion designer, was also arrested.
On the Kaduna–Zaria highway, NDLEA officers on patrol stopped a truck carrying cement on April 13.
A search found 760 blocks and 33 jumbo bags of skunk, a type of cannabis, that weighed 847 kilograms. Umar Garba Haruna, 33, was the driver and was arrested.
On April 16, police raided a forest in the Uwet community of Akamkpa Local Government Area in Cross River State and arrested 53-year-old Alice Sunday Udoh. Operatives destroyed 15,000 kilograms of cannabis grown on six hectares of farmland and found another 119 kilograms.
On April 14, police raided a cannabis farm in the Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State and destroyed 2,281.43 kilograms of the drug. Police arrested three people: Nweke Smart, 27; Christopher Egbe, 62; and Monday Ayan, 45.
Two other people, Sunday Odili, 49, and Ijenebe Joshua, 39, were caught in Delta State with 87.838 kilograms of skunk and seeds.
On April 15, NDLEA agents in Lagos arrested two people, Chinedu Ogbekene and Zindozin Aloukou Bienvenu, along the Mile 2–Badagry Expressway. They were on their way to Ghana with 11,900 capsules of tramadol and 400 ampoules of phenobarbital injection. Officers also raided a building in the Petti area of Lagos Island on the same day and found 95.8 kilograms of skunk.
The agency said that its offices across the country also ran advocacy campaigns as part of its War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) initiative. These campaigns targeted schools, religious centers, workplaces, and communities.
Mohamed Buba Marwa, the Chairman and CEO of NDLEA, praised the officers in the affected commands for their hard work and told them to keep up the good work in both enforcement and public awareness.
