NDLEA Intercepts Illicit Drug Packaged As Green Tea

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted no fewer than 66 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, packaged as green tea at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.

The 62.20 kg Loud consignment was concealed inside green tea wraps on an Emirates Airlines flight from Thailand to the UAE.

NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said the seizure on Thursday, June 5, 2025, was based on credible intelligence received ahead of the consignment’s arrival at the airport’s cargo wing on May 11th.
The NDLEA had watch-listed the shipment and sustained surveillance around it for over three weeks before inviting other stakeholders for a joint examination last Thursday.

In another operation in Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Monday, June 2nd, intercepted a consignment of 1,665kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, along Lekki-Ajah Expressway.

Two suspects, Gidado Abdulrasaq Ayinde and Obanla Oluwafemi, were promptly arrested in connection with the seizure.

In Kaduna, operatives of the state command of NDLEA on patrol along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway on Tuesday, 3rd June, arrested 29-year-old Goodluck Nnaemeka with 612 bottles of codeine-based syrup and 2,970 pills of flunitrazepam.

In another operation on the same day, a 52-year-old wanted drug dealer, Kabiru Musa (a.k.a KB), was arrested at Kurmin Mashi. A total of 25.7kg of skunk was recovered from his base earlier.

While a total of 9kg of Loud was recovered from the spare tyre compartment of an Audi station wagon car marked AAA 975 XU driven by Atari Israel, 45, along Auchi Road, Edo State, two young ladies, Favour Joy and Joy Igwe, were nabbed on Tuesday, June 3rd, at Ikpoba hill area of Benin city.

Exhibits recovered from them include: 106.57kg skunk; 1kg Loud; 800 grams Colorado, and 302 grams of methamphetamine.