The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 50-year-old widow and fashion designer, Mrs. Ifeoma Henrietta Ezewuike over attempt to traffic 1.3 kilograms of cocaine, using fake pregnancy as a façade to escape scrutiny and detection.
The widow who is a mother of one and proprietress of Golden Star Creation, a fashion outfit in Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos, was arrested at a bus terminal in Jibowu, Yaba area of the state on Friday August 22, 2025 while attempting to move the cocaine consignment to customers in Abuja.
In a statement on Sunday, NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi said, “A follow-up operation at her house in Ago Palace area led to the recovery of 200 grams of cutting agent used in the production of a strain of cocaine.”
In her statement, Ezewuike claimed that she inherited the criminal trade from her husband who died two years ago, while she has been in the fashion business for 20 years.
In another development, not less than 90 parcels of Loud, a strain of cannabis weighing 48.6kg, imported from the United States of America and concealed in three cartons of kitchen sink were intercepted at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday, August 19, by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI).
In Adamawa, NDLEA operatives acting on credible intelligence on Friday August 22, raided the home of a suspected drug dealer identified as Idris Garba who scaled the fence to escape arrest, while one of his associates Boniface Nnaji, 55, who attempted same was caught in the act at Rumde Baru area of Yola South.
The NDLEA recovered from his premises a black Toyota Thundra jeep marked FST- 885-CZ driven to Yola by Nnaji to supply Garba 354,480 pills of tramadol 225mg, 250mg and others as well as a Toyota Yaris car with registration number DSA 776 AA.
A total of 5,000 capsules of Tramadol, 400 ampoules of Pentazocine injection and 200 ampoules of Diazepam injection were seized from a suspect Neche Okonkwo at the Idah waterside after crossing the River Niger from Onitsha, Anambra State to Lokoja, Kogi State with the opioids on Wednesday, August 20.
In Kano, the duo of Buhari Ibrahim, 25, and Mansur Musa, 24, were nabbed at Zangon Dakata Ungogo, with 5,850 capsules of pregabaline on Tuesday, August 19, while a total of 452,070 pills of opioids were recovered from the home of a suspect Rabilu Mukhtar who is at large, at Rangaza, Ungogo LGA just as Buhari Idris, 35, was arrested at Tashan Rami area of the state with 140 litres of codeine syrup, both on same Tuesday.
No fewer than 7,000 capsules of Tramadol were also seized from Adamu Yusuf, 29, along Zaria-Kano Road, Kwanar Dangora area of the state on Saturday August 23.
