{"id":4712,"date":"2026-09-28T16:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:21:55","slug":"drug-trafficking-how-europe-bound-bridegroom-excretes-72-wraps-of-cocaine-at-enugu-airport-ndlea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=4712","title":{"rendered":"Drug Trafficking: How Europe-bound bridegroom excretes 72 wraps of cocaine at Enugu Airport &#8211;NDLEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*<strong><em>The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency also intercept over N3billion worth of opioids at the Lagos Airport, nabbing cross-border Togolese traffickers, and others in Lagos, Oyo, Edo, Bauchi raids<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect<\/p>\n<p>In line with its continued offensive against illicit drug trafficking and substance abuse, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has disclosed its operatives arrested certain Lovely Chukwulobelu, a 25-year-old newlywed businessman, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu, South-East Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwulobelu had attempted to traffic 72 wraps of cocaine, which he ingested, to Portugal where he resides before he met his Waterloo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"livu5mYFdW\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=4678\">Energy Security: Court&#8217;s ordering NMDPRA to grant oil import licences to marketers conforms to PIA \u2013Official<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cEnergy Security: Court\u2019s ordering NMDPRA to grant oil import licences to marketers conforms to PIA \u2013Official\u201d \u2014 Consumer Experience Is A Top Priority\" src=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?p=4678&amp;embed=true#?secret=lEfCGq5T44#?secret=livu5mYFdW\" data-secret=\"livu5mYFdW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The NDLEA affirmed that its operatives intercepted the bridegroom in the departure hall of the Enugu Airport Thursday, September 25, 2026, with cocaine in his gut and wedding ring on his finger, while he attempted to board an Ethiopian Airline flight to Portugal via Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, Chukwulobelu was placed under excretion observation during which he egested a total of 72 wraps of the Class A illicit drug, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy at NDLEA, who disclosed this development in a statement Sunday, September 27, 2026, said the drug suspect claimed he was into car decoration business at the Trade Fair Complex, Ojo area of Lagos before he relocated to Portugal, May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwulobelu, however, said he returned to Nigeria recently to get married September 13 this year.<\/p>\n<p>He said he resorted to the criminal trade to offset expenses incurred during his wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, Babafemi stated that the agency at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), in Ikeja Lagos, Tuesday, September 22, 2026, again, uncovered one of the year&#8217;s biggest opioid hauls during a joint examination of three monitored consignments, leading to the seizure of Two Million Five Hundred and Fifty-Five Thousand (2,550,000) pills of Tramaking 225mg, Tramaking 250mg, and Royal Tapentadol 250mg, with a combined gross weight of 1,640.55 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>The consignments, were imported from India and Bangladesh via Qatar Airways, RwandAir, and Ethiopian Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>In Bauchi, NDLEA operatives arrested two suspects: Umar Hamidu, 35, and Abdulkarim Salihu, 45, along the Maiduguri bypass with 300 compressed blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing 262.5kg, concealed in the false bottom of a truck marked MUB757 YH, while two cannabis farms with a combined estimated yield of 1,360.23kg at Eko Camp, Ilushi, Edo state were destroyed by NDLEA officers supported by soldiers on Wednesday 23rd September.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, in Lagos, the anti-narcotics regulatory agency said two female suspects: Odumabo Kehinde, 36, and Obiekwe Chioma, 40, were arrested Saturday, 26th September when NDLEA operatives raided Anifowoshe Street, in Mushin, where they recovered 3.4kg skunk from them.<\/p>\n<p>In another operation in Lagos same day, NDLEA officers intercepted a 58-year-old man Ugwu Johnson at Ebute-Ero motor park, with large quantities of illicit consignments, including: 5.920kg skunk; 2,400 ampoules of pentazocine injection; 8,400 tablets of nitrazepam; and 40,000 pills of tramadol.<\/p>\n<p>Two Togolese nationals: Yinusa Abdulsamad, 35, and Fatai Baba, 33, were nabbed by NDLEA officers Saturday, 26th September, at Iganna-Ilero Road, Iganna, Oyo state with 305.6kg of skunk concealed in two pick-up vans used for cross-border trafficking racket, moving Ghanaian-sourced cannabis into Nigeria through the Oyo axis.<\/p>\n<p>At the Seme border in Badagry, Lagos, five suspects were arrested with 420 cartons of nitrous oxide popularly called laughing gas weighing 1,688.4kg, along with two vehicles used in conveying the exhibit from the border into Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>They include: Kingsley John, 40; John Chibuike Okeke, 44; Lamidi Ismaila, 40; Babatunde Samuel, 42; and Afeesu Idowu, 47.<\/p>\n<p>With the same vigour, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>These include: WADA sensitization lecture to students and staff of Community High School, Saki, Oyo state; Auchi College, Auchi, Edo; Alkali Modibbo Islamic Centre, Dukku, Gombe; and Junior Arabic Secondary School, Kahu, Kibiya LGA, Kano, while the Delta Ports Command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy visit to His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatshe III, the Olu Of Warri, Delta state, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Commending the Officers and Men of the MMIA, AIIA, Lagos, Oyo, Edo, Seme, and Bauchi Commands for the various successful operations, Babafemi stated Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd.), Chairman\/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NDLEA, enjoined them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency also intercept over N3billion worth of opioids at the Lagos Airport, nabbing cross-border Togolese traffickers, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"Photo Collage of Arrested Lovely Chukwulobelu with 72 Wraps of Illict Drug and the New Groom with His Wife During Their Wedding Ceremony Recently        Photos: NDLEA","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"default","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"","_customify_header_transparent_display":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","category-infoeducation","category-regulators"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NDLEA-and-Bridegroom-on-Drugs-cc.png",672,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NDLEA-and-Bridegroom-on-Drugs-cc-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NDLEA-and-Bridegroom-on-Drugs-cc-300x161.png",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NDLEA-and-Bridegroom-on-Drugs-cc.png",672,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NDLEA-and-Bridegroom-on-Drugs-cc.png",672,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NDLEA-and-Bridegroom-on-Drugs-cc.png",672,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NDLEA-and-Bridegroom-on-Drugs-cc.png",672,360,false]},"author_info":{"info":["ConsumerConnect"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?cat=20\" rel=\"category\">Highlights<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">InfoEducation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Regulators<\/a>","tag_info":"Regulators","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4716,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions\/4716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consumerconnectng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}