Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a 48-year-old motorcycle taxi rider at Lagos airport after he arrived carrying methamphetamine internally. Onyechere Daniel Chinadufor touched down at Murtala Muhammed International Airport on an Ethiopian Airways flight from Madagascar via Addis Ababa.
Officers discovered 87 wraps of the drug in his checked luggage at Terminal 2. During a three-day observation period, he excreted an additional 13 wraps, bringing the total recovered to 100 wraps weighing 1.715 kilogrammes.
According to NDLEA, Chinadufor told investigators he'd driven okada for 15 years in the Oke-Afo area of Lagos before a friend in Uganda recruited him into drug trafficking. He said he ingested the pellets in Uganda and travelled to Madagascar to deliver the consignment but immigration officials there denied him entry.
The agency noted he was then rerouted to Lagos, where NDLEA operatives intercepted him. He couldn't recall the exact number of pellets he'd swallowed initially, prompting the three-day monitoring that revealed the additional wraps.
In a separate operation, NDLEA agents seized a massive cannabis shipment at Apapa Port in Lagos on July 10, 2026. The haul included 8,287 nylon bags of Canadian Loud cannabis weighing 4,143.5 kilogrammes, with a street value exceeding N10.3 billion.
Officers from the Maritime Intelligence Unit had monitored the container after it departed Montreal, Canada. The seizure involved joint examination by NDLEA personnel, Nigeria Customs Service officials and other security agencies.
Elsewhere, NDLEA thwarted an attempt to export 2.5 kilogrammes of skunk hidden inside a gas compressor destined for Cyprus. The shipment was supposed to travel through a Lagos-based courier company.
The agency also arrested a 38-year-old South African woman, Will Jessica Ann, at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on July 6, 2026. Officers caught her during passenger clearance on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha with 5.75 kilogrammes of heroin concealed in her bags.
The suspect initially denied having checked-in luggage, NDLEA said. She later acknowledged ownership after operatives matched the bag tags to claim tags attached to her passport.
Intelligence indicated Ann travelled from Cambodia through Doha to Abuja and belongs to a transnational trafficking network operating the Cambodia-South Africa route. NDLEA said her husband or partner, Jan Coenraad De Jager, also participates in the criminal enterprise.
Beyond these enforcement operations, NDLEA commands and formations nationwide pushed ahead with public awareness programmes under the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) initiative. The sensitisation activities took place in schools, places of worship, workplaces and communities across multiple states including Ebonyi, Kano, Ekiti, Ogun and Rivers.
