… woman nabbed with 266 rounds of AK-47 ammunition
By AGATHA N UJU, Correspondent, Abuja Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, have arrested two Europe-based Nigerian, ‘businessmen’ for attempting to traffic large quantities of cocaine weighing 3.460 kilograms.
According to the NDLEA, the men, identified as Aliocus Godian Odife and Sam Blackborn, were intercepted on Wednesday, 28th October 2026 during the outward clearance of Air France flight AF 832 from Abuja to Paris. Both men who returned home on holiday and about to jet out to Paris, france, have excreted a total of 200 wraps of the Class A drug weighing 3.460 kilograms.
NDLEA said Odife, who claims to live in France where he works in a factory, had arrived in Nigeria for a short holiday on 21st October.
He was however arrested by NDLEA operatives on his return flight few days after when he was subjected to a body scan, which confirmed the presence of foreign objects in his stomach.
Under interview, he admitted to having ingested 110 pellets of cocaine. He was placed under observation during which he excreted all 110 wraps, which tested positive for cocaine with a total weight of 1.901 kilograms.
On the same flight, his co-traveller, Sam Blackborn, was also nabbed by NDLEA officers at the departure hall of the Abuja airport. His body scan likewise returned positive for ingestion, while he confessed to having swallowed 90 pellets of cocaine.
Under observation, he excreted all 90 wraps, which tested positive for the class A drug after each excretion and weighed a total of 1.559 kilograms.Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on patrol along the Abuja–Kaduna expressway have arrested a woman, Aisha Isah, at the toll gate with 266 rounds of live AK-47 ammunition.
As the Agency sustained nationwide crackdown on drug peddlers and cartels, its operatives in Lagos, while acting on actionable intelligence on the movement of skunk, a strong strain of cannabis from the Island to the Mainland, on Sunday 25th October, intercepted a white Volkswagen LT 28 bus along Kudirat Abiola Way, Ikeja, where 537 kilograms of the psychoactive substance were recovered. The same day, another team of officers intercepted a brown J5 bus along the Gbagada–Oshodi expressway, with 439 kilograms of the same substance seized.
In Oyo State, NDLEA operatives on Thursday 29th October conducted a follow-up operation at Idere road, Igboora, where two suspects: Oguntona Nasiru, 46, and Soji Balogun, 47, were arrested while loading 554 kilograms of skunk into a Volvo truck for onward movement into town. The operation targeted a notorious drug dealer known as ‘Omo Oba’, who escaped arrest on 25th October when officers seized 309.5 kilograms of the strong cannabis strain popularly called ‘Ghanaian Loud’ linked to him.
In Kano, NDLEA operatives on Monday 26th October raided a location in Tsamiya area of Gezawa, where they recovered 247,500 tablets of diazepam weighing 57.7 kilograms and 100,000 tablets of Exol-5 weighing 38.7 kilograms. Two days later, on Wednesday 28th October, another team of officers stormed Dorayi area of the state, where they arrested Ziya’ulhaq Abdullahi, 35, and Garba Muhammed, 52, with 19,250 pills of tramadol 225mg weighing 13.6 kilograms.
