- NDLEA said a Toyota Thundra used for transporting 354,480 tramadol pills was seized during the Adamawa operation.
- Another suspect, Neche Okonkwo, was arrested in Kogi with opioids while crossing River Niger from Anambra into Lokoja.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a widow, Ifeoma Henrietta Ezewuike, for allegedly attempting to traffic cocaine in Lagos.
The 50-year-old suspect was accused of concealing 1.3 kilogrammes of cocaine in a fake pregnancy bump.
The agency said the suspect, who is a mother of one, runs a fashion business on Ago Palace Way, Okota.
In a statement on Sunday, the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said Ezewuike was arrested at a Jibowu bus terminal in Yaba.
He said the suspect was on her way to Abuja to deliver the cocaine consignment to buyers.
Babafemi added that a search of her residence in Ago Palace led to the recovery of 200 grams of cutting agent.
The substance, according to the NDLEA, is used in processing a particular strain of cocaine.
“In her statement, Ezewuike claimed she inherited the criminal trade from her late husband,” the agency said.
“She explained that her spouse died two years ago and that she had been in the fashion business for two decades.”
The NDLEA also intercepted 90 parcels of “Loud,” a strain of cannabis, weighing 48.6 kilogrammes in Lagos.
The consignment, imported from the United States, was hidden inside three cartons of kitchen sinks at a courier company on August 19.
Babafemi said operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation carried out the seizure.
In Adamawa, NDLEA officers raided the house of a notorious drug dealer, Idris Garba, on August 22.
Garba escaped by scaling a fence, but his associate, 55-year-old Boniface Nnaji, was arrested at Rumde Baru in Yola South.
The agency said a black Toyota Thundra driven to Yola by Nnaji was recovered during the operation.
The truck was allegedly used to supply Garba with 354,480 pills of tramadol and other opioids.
A Toyota Yaris with registration number DSA 776 AA was also recovered.
NDLEA operatives in Kogi arrested another suspect, Neche Okonkwo, at Idah waterside on August 20.
Okonkwo was nabbed while crossing from Onitsha, Anambra state, to Lokoja with 5,000 tramadol capsules and injectable opioids.
Recovered substances included 400 ampoules of pentazocine and 200 ampoules of diazepam.
The NDLEA chairman, Buba Marwa, commended officers for the successful operations.
He urged personnel to sustain the agency’s “balanced approach” in tackling drug trafficking nationwide.