NDLEA Arrests China-bound Auto Parts Dealer With 95 Wraps Of Cocaine

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 62-year-old Lagos-based businessman, Nwabueze Nicholas Izueke, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) in Kano while heading to China with 95 jumbo-sized wraps of cocaine weighing 1.589 kilograms buried in his stomach.

Nwabueze was arrested on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at the Kano airport during the outward clearance of passengers going to China via Addis Ababa on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET940.

NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, that he was taken a body scan, the suspect tested positive for ingesting illicit drugs and was promptly placed under excretion observation.

According to him, “While under observation, the suspect who claims he is 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.”

Also, the NDLEA recovered a total of 627.7 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, from a makeshift warehouse within Fums Plaza in Kubwa, Abuja.

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, February 6, foiled in Abuja after the agency operatives intercepted the consignments in a bus.

Babafemi noted that 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 Ugwu, Arinze and Michael were nabbed on Saturday, February 7, in Kaduna, when they showed up to collect the second consignment weighing 28grams of meth.

In a similar development, NDLEA operatives at Dan-anacha patrol point, Gassol local government area of Taraba State, on Friday, February 6, intercepted a suspect Yusuf Abubakar, 32, conveying packs of Hollandia Yogurt from Lagos heading to Mubi, Adamawa State.

Acting on intelligence, the NDLEA officers searched the yoghurt packs, some of which were used to conceal wraps of white powdery substance that tested positive to methamphetamine weighing 1.8 kilograms.