00:00Authorities in Nigeria have arrested a 74-year-old grandpa with cocaine concealed inside foodstuffs, balloons and foil papers found
00:08inside his traveling luggage during check by the men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA while the suspect
00:16was about to board a British Airways flight to Heathrow Airport in London, United Kingdom.
00:22This, the suspect during preliminary interview by one of the officials of the NDLEA, said he was traveling to London
00:30for a visit, and when asked who is the person he had planned to visit in London, the suspect said
00:36he was given some address of whom to visit, adding, the person that gave him some address of the place
00:41he had planned to visit in London was the one that gave him the bag containing the substance abuse.
00:47At a point, the suspect looked somehow surprised when the security operatives informed him that the white substance turned blue
00:54and in a related development, another suspect, a woman while with her children including an infant was arrested during which
01:01she was about to sell 89 grams of cocaine tested to be cocaine hydrochloride or cocaine HCI.
01:07The 74-year-old grandpa, Ikuak Lominmokoro Emeka, was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA,
01:18at the Namdi Azakiwe International Airport, Naya, Abuja after a large consignment of cocaine was discovered in foil papers and
01:26balloons concealed in his luggage.
01:28The septuagenarian who claimed he was traveling to London, United Kingdom for vacation, was arrested by NDLEA officers at the
01:37departure hall of the Abuja Airport while attempting to board a British Airways flight BA-082 to Heathrow, London on
01:45Saturday 14 March 2026.
01:48During a search of his luggage, blocks of cocaine weighing 11 kilograms were discovered concealed inside food items, including ground
01:57-dry pepper, carefully wrapped in foil papers and balloons.
02:00Meanwhile, in Lagos, NDLEA operatives acting on credible intelligence in the early hours of Monday the 9th of March arrested
02:10a woman, Mrs. Mayamololoo at Ikid Hotel and Suites, on Etaminyang Street, Victoria Island, while attempting to sell 89 grams
02:19of cocaine and 20 grams of Canadian Loud, a strain of cannabis.
02:23She was found with her three children, including an infant, at the time of the arrest.
02:29She confessed the illicit drugs belonged to her husband, Ibrahimololoo-Olatunji, who was later taken into custody the same day
02:37while his wife was immediately set free.
02:40Ibrahim confirmed ownership of the illicit drugs in his statement while further investigation revealed that he had previously been arrested,
02:48convicted, and sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment for a similar offense in 2015.
02:54In another interdiction operation, NDLEA operatives arrested two suspects, Kalilu Simpara and Saidu Ibrahim at Abetu Ero, Lagos Island where
03:05they recovered 68,000 pills of tramadol 250 milligrams and 225 milligrams after they had loaded the exhibits into their
03:14truck and preparing to transport them to Benin Republic on Monday the 9th of March.
03:19A follow-up operation was conducted on Wednesday the 11th of March at Idomota Market, Lagos Island, where the actual
03:27owner of the consignment, Namdi Ciprian, was arrested.
03:31A search of his shop led to the discovery of a parcel already prepared for waybill delivery, containing 1,000
03:38tablets of tramadol 250 milligrams.
03:42Another raid at Idomota Market on Friday the 13th of March led to the arrest of Inwanosite Kelvin and the
03:48recovery of 47,500 amples of pentazocene injection from his shop.
03:54While a 42-year-old Magagi Danazumi was arrested at Bebeji area of Kano with 386 kilograms skunk on Tuesday
04:03the 10th of March, NDLEA officers in Abuja recovered 282.2 kilograms skunk from a suspect Isawako, 42, in Guagulada
04:15area of the FCT on Friday the 13th of March.
04:18In Edo State, NDLEA operatives raided the Egwa Forest Reserve in Adjuan Village, Orinwan local government area where a suspect
04:29Shinedo Odolodo, 33, was apprehended and a total of 4,218.96 kilograms skunk destroyed on two farms with 16
04:39.5 kilograms of same substance recovered.
04:42No fewer than 339,800 bottles of codeine-based syrup were intercepted in two containers at the Apapa seaport in
04:52Lagos on Saturday the 14th of March during a joint examination of the shipments by NDLEA officers, men of customs
05:00and other security agencies.
05:02The containers had earlier been watch-listed by NDLEA following credible intelligence on concealment of opioids in them.
05:10The war against drug abuse, WADA, social advocacy activities by NDLEA commands equally continued across the country in the past
05:21week.
05:49Some of them include
05:51They paid a WADA advocacy visit to Governor Francis Ogbonna in Wifero of Aboni State, among others.
05:58While commending the officers and men of Naya, Lagos, Kano, PEDO and FCT commands of the agency for the arrests
06:06and seizures of the past week,
06:07Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Baba Mawa, retired,
06:14also praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for pursuing a fair balance between the drug supply
06:21reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
06:24I want to reopen again.
06:26I see what you have.
06:28I want to reopen again.
06:42I see what you have.
06:45I see what you have.
06:48I see what you have.
06:54I see what you have.
06:56I see what you have.
07:09I see what you have.
07:26I see.
07:27So Baba, he is going to touch this thing on this.
07:31If it turns blue, it means it is cocaine.
07:34If it turns blue, it means it is cocaine.
07:37Yeah.
07:38So let him try it so that he see.
07:44so what you're carrying is cocaine this is cocaine so we are going to count how many
07:51they are on the wigs okay
08:00so what is
08:15where are you from
08:17to go to london to london what are you going to do in london
08:25i'm supposed to go to
08:33i'm going there for
08:35uh
08:41well uh
08:42i have some
08:44At first, I want to give it.
08:46Who gave it the hand at this?
08:49Eh, if the man got it, get me the...
08:55Get me the hand at this.
08:58We'll try this one now.
09:00Come, you can see the details.
09:09So we can see the machine is scanning the drawer.
09:12Can you see?
09:13Yes.
09:23So the scanning is over now. It's analyzing now.
09:38How do you see here?
09:39Okay, English, she's seeing here.
09:42So it's confirmed in Scotia, as you said, it's Scotia.
09:44Okay.
09:47Okay.
09:55Okay.
09:57That's what I can do.
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