The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, confirmed the arrest of the businessman on Sunday.
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They were to be smuggled out via Murtala Muhammed International Airport and some courier firms, all in Lagos State.
Unbelievable! Cocaine, heroin, codeine, and morphine sharing the same podium with cigarettes?
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, revealed this in a statement he issued on Sunday.
While one of them, Aikhomoun Daniel, ingested 90 wraps of the drug, the other, Ayigoro Waheed Omobolaji, swallowed 60.
This followed the arrest of the siblings and seizure of cocaine and methamphetamine worth over N4.1 billion in street value from their hideout in Aba, Abia State.
The arrest of Orjinze, who also claims to be a professional footballer in Europe, was revealed in a statement by the NDLEA.
The ladies were arrested on December 9, 2023 with the drugs having a combined weight of 15.8503kg.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 67-year-old trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine, a criminal enterprise he claimed he ventured into to raise enough money to marry a new wife and start life afresh after wasting 30 years of his life in Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand.
The Narcotic Commandant (CC) of NDLEA, Lagos command, Isah Adoro, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos.
Its spokesman, Femi Babafemi, stated in Abuja on Sunday that the drugs were intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Thursday, Nov. 24.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this on Sunday in Abuja.
The NDLEA Commander in the state, Umar Adoro, revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeriaon Wednesday.
Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
Leading other top officials of NDLEA, other security agencies and members of the public in the burning of heaps of the illicit drugs, Chairman/Chief Executive of the Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) said the exercise is a strong message to drug barons and cartels that they’ll continue to lose their huge investments in the criminal trade if they fail to back out and look for other legitimate businesses.
The resident of 5, Nkanunta Street, Meniru, Awkunanaw, Enugu State was convicted on a two count charge of drug trafficking.
The ex-driver was arrested by the NDLEA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on June 27, 2022.
This was disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja Sunday by NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.
Baba was charged by the National Drug Law enforcement Agency on four count in suit number FHC/L/112c/2022.
A Prosecutor with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Beatrice Igberaise, told the court that the accused committed the offence on January 22 in the Ojumose area of the Ekiti capital.