NDLEA intercepts businessman with 95 cocaine wraps at Kano Airport
..as Agency recovers 627.7 kilograms of Hard drugs in Abuja warehouse
.The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended a 62-year-old Lagos-based businessman, Nwabueze Nicholas Izueke, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) in Kano, while attempting to travel to China with 95 jumbo-sized wraps of cocaine weighing 1.589 kilograms concealed in his stomach.
Nwabueze was arrested on Saturday 31st January 2026 at the Kano airport during the outward clearance of passengers going to China via Addis Ababa on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET940. When taken for body scan, he tested positive for ingesting illicit drug and was promptly placed under excretion observation.
While under observation, the suspect who claims he’s into clothing and auto spare parts business in Lagos, expelled a total of 95 pellets of the class A drug in seven excretions.
In his statement, he claimed he decided to engage in illicit drug trafficking to raise enough money to complete the country home he’s building in his village, Iwollo, Enugu state.
Meanwhile in Abuja , the Federal Capital Territory, a total of 627.7 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, were recovered from a makeshift warehouse within Fums Plaza in Kubwa,
. Attempt by Ebube Okeke, Evans Ugwu, Mohammed Eze Arinze and Friday Michael to smuggle consignments of methamphetamine concealed in Mp3 speakers from Enugu to Abuja and Kaduna was on Friday 6th February foiled by NDLEA operatives in Abuja who intercepted the consignments in a bus. A follow up operation in Zuba, FCT led to the arrest of Ebube Okeke who is the owner of one of the parcels containing 173grams of meth, while the trio of Evans Ugwu, Mohammed Eze Arinze and Friday Michael were nabbed on Saturday 7th February in Kaduna when they showed up to collect the second consignment weighing 28grams of meth
NDLEA Chairman and CEO, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), reacting to recent arrests and seizures, urged his men across the nation to maintain the current level of professionalism and commitment in their drug supply reduction and demand reduction efforts.
Credit: NDLEA
