NDLEA Nabs Chinese Businessman With Illegal Drug At Lagos Airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a Chinese businessman, Liang Tak You for importing illegal drugs to Nigeria.

Liang was arrested by NDLEA operatives at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, July 25, 2025 based on actionable intelligence.

The suspect, who arrived Nigeria from Bangkok via Dubai, UAE, on Emirates Airline flight, is a Chinese national, naturalised and based in Malaysia, but flew to Thailand where he picked two suitcases filled with 50 parcels of Loud weighing 26.10kg before heading to Nigeria via UAE.

NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi said upon the suspect’s arrival at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives who were tracking his movement from his port of departure allowed him to pass through necessary protocols before picking him up on his way out of the airport.

The NDLEA also arrested a 80-yr-old grandma, Mrs. Grace Ekpeme for dealing in illegal drugs in the southern part of the country.

The octogenarian was arrested at Edet-Nsa street, Base Site, Calabar South, Cross River State with over 3kg skunk in the early hours of Saturday July 26, 2025, following intelligence on her drug dealing activities.

In Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday, July 23, intercepted a suspect, Chidi Agbafo, along the Epe – Ajah Expressway while taking consignments of 21.7kg Colorado, some of which were packaged in Moimoi cooking sachets and 3.8litres of codeine based syrup in a commercial bus to deliver in Warri and Oghara, Delta State.

At the Apapa Seaport in Lagos, a total of 101kg Canadian Loud factory packed in 202 tins of imported food item labelled ‘Bean Salad Mix’ and concealed in two Toyota Sienna buses in a container that came from Canada, were recovered.

The discovery was made during a joint examination of the container by NDLEA officers, men of Nigeria Customs Service and other security agencies on July 25.

The NDLEA also recovered no fewer than 71,000 pills of Tramadol, Diazepam and Exol-5 from one Usman Musa along Abuja-Kaduna Highway on Wednesday, July 23rd, when the suspect was travelling with the consignment of Opioids in a commercial bus going to Kano.

In Borno, a 30-year-old lady, Binta Usman, was also arrested on July 23rd by NDLEA officers who recovered 30.1kg skunk from her house at Muna Moforo area of Maiduguri.

A followup operation later led to the arrest of her accomplice, Bala Abdullahi in the same area of the Borno State capital on July 25.