Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered 70 parcels of cocaine weighing 3.6 kilograms cleverly concealed in the walls of cocoa butter body cream containers destined for London, United Kingdom.
NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
The consignment, factory-packed and disguised as personal effects, was intercepted on October 14, 2025 at the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
A cargo agent, Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, who presented the shipment for airfreight on an Air Peace flight, was immediately arrested.
According to the NDLEA, two other major suspects, Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah, a healthcare worker, and Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, Chief Executive Officer of Mutiu Adebiyi & Co. Travel Agency, were later apprehended in follow-up operations at different locations across Lagos.
In a related bust, NDLEA officers at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu foiled an attempt by a 35-year-old Lesotho national, Lemena Mark, to smuggle 103.59 grams of methamphetamine concealed in a Diabeta Herbs Coffee Tea pack to the Philippines on October 22.
The crackdown continued nationwide, with NDLEA operatives arresting Umar Abubakar, 40, in Bode Saadu, Kwara State, after 21,950 capsules of tramadol 250mg were found hidden inside a 100-litre water heater on October 21.
In Lagos, a raid on Solomade Estate, Ikorodu, on October 23 led to the recovery of 275 litres of “skuchies,” a dangerous cocktail of blackcurrant drink, cannabis, and opioids, from Ogunyabo Adenigbigbe.
Elsewhere, a 75-year-old grandfather, Echendu Onuoka, and a 60-year-old grandmother, Aukana John, were caught with quantities of skunk in Obingwa LGA, Abia State.
Similar seizures were recorded in Ondo and Kaduna States, where operatives intercepted over 384 kilograms of cannabis and thousands of tramadol and rohypnol pills from multiple suspects.
The NDLEA, under Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), reaffirmed its resolve to dismantle trafficking networks and block every route used by international and local drug syndicates.