A 41-year-old Sao Paulo, Brazil-based businessman, Abugu Oliver Ikechukwu, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for importing shirts and towels impregnated with 6.10 kilograms of liquid cocaine from the South American country into Nigeria.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made this known in an update he made available on Sunday.
In the update that covered the activities of the anti-narcotic agency, Babafemi said Abugu was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos upon arrival from Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia aboard an Ethiopian Airways flight on June 11, 2026.
A thorough search of his luggage led to the recovery of 14 towels and shirts, all soaked in liquid cocaine, dried and well ironed.
In his statement, the suspect claimed he has lived for over 14 years in Brazil where he runs an African restaurant.
He added that he was in Nigeria to see his wife and buy foodstuff in bulk for his restaurant.
Meanwhile, a 60-year-old woman, Chidimma Sunday, and a 28-year-old man, Abubakar Usman, both persons living with disability, have been taken into NDLEA custody in Abia and Rivers States respectively following their involvement in illicit drug trade.
While Sunday was nabbed with 1.8kg skunk by Umuosu vigilante group in Umuna Autonomous Community, Isialangwa North LGA of Abia State and handed over to the NDLEA on June 10, 2026, Usman was arrested at Rumuokoro in Port Harcourt, Rivers State with 400 grams of skunk, five grams of methamphetamine, 100 grams of tramadol, five grams of swinol, and 18 grams of diazepam during a raid by NDLEA officers on June 9, 2026.
In Delta State, NDLEA operatives on June 8 arrested a suspect, Onya Jude, 36, in possession of five gas cylinders used to conceal 2.8 kilograms of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, at Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South area of the state.
This was followed by the arrest of two notorious dealers: 40-year-old Jamilu Idris, aka Jama, and 33-year-old Aminu Abdullahi, aka Momo, at Kasuwan Katako area of Gombe, Gombe State.
They were caught with three big blocks of skunk that weighed 2.738kg at the time of their arrest by NDLEA operatives.
While Ngozi Gaius, 39, was nabbed along Zaria/Kano Road, Kano State on June 12 conveying 6,000 pills of tramadol 225mg, two suspects: Nasiru Hamza, 47, and Muhammad Sani, 38, were intercepted by NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bode Saadu Road, Kwara State conveying 600 compressed blocks of skunk weighing 304kg in a black Toyota jeep with special registration number: P JHR 783, on June 9.
In Taraba State, NDLEA officers acting on credible intelligence on June 13 raided the warehouse of a notorious dealer Ali Adamu, 45, at Maihula village, Bali LGA, where 63 jumbo bags of cannabis sativa weighing 1,121.5 kilograms, were recovered.
On the same day, operatives on patrol along Gwagwalada Expressway, FCT, Abuja arrested Emmanuel Nnadi, 46, and seized from him assorted illicit substances, including: 30,400 pills of tramadol 225mg and 100mg, 750 pills of pregabline 300mg, 200 pills of molly, and 592 bottles of codeine-based syrup.
A large consignment of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 1,102 kilograms, was recovered around Alaba International Market, Ojo area of Lagos State on June 13.
With the same zeal, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places, and communities among others in the past week.
These included WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of Government Science School, Lafia, Nasarawa State; Community Secondary School, Imufu, Enugu Ezike, Enugu State; Araromi Junior Secondary School, Adekunle Sari-Iganmu, Ijora, Lagos State; traditional leaders in Minjibir LGA, Kano State; and St. Charles College, Onitsha, Anambra State; while the Rivers State Command of the NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy visit to His Royal Majesty, Eze Onyekachi Amaonwu, the Paramount Ruler of Eberi Omuma kingdom.
While commending the officers, men and women of MMIA, Abia, Rivers, Kano, Kwara, Delta, Gombe, Lagos, and FCT Commands for the arrests and seizures, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.), noted their drug supply reduction efforts balanced with WADA sensitisation activities while he charged them and their compatriots across the country to continue to surpass their previous records.
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