{"id":6334,"date":"2026-11-02T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/two-europe-bound-businessmen-excrete-200-wraps-of-cocaine-at-abuja-airport-businessday-ng-2\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:02:09","slug":"two-europe-bound-businessmen-excrete-200-wraps-of-cocaine-at-abuja-airport-businessday-ng-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/two-europe-bound-businessmen-excrete-200-wraps-of-cocaine-at-abuja-airport-businessday-ng-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Europe-bound businessmen excrete 200 wraps of cocaine at Abuja Airport \u2013 Businessday NG"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026NDLEA intercepts woman with 266 rounds of AK-47 ammunition along Abuja\u2013Kaduna expressway <\/em>\n<\/p>\n

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested two Europe-based Nigerian \u2018businessmen\u2019 who flew home on holiday and attempted to return to Paris, France with their bellies loaded with cocaine.\n<\/p>\n

Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, said the Agency\u2019s operatives arrested the duo at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja.\n<\/p>\n

The duo, Aliocus Godian Odife and Sam Blackborn, were intercepted during the outward clearance of Air France flight AF 832 from Abuja to Paris.\n<\/p>\n

He revealed that both men excreted a total of 200 wraps of the Class A drug weighing 3.460 kilograms.<\/p>\n

Odife, who claimed to be living in France where he was working in a factory, had arrived in Nigeria for a short holiday.\n<\/p>\n

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.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder 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.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cOn 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.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder 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\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

In Lagos, NDLEA operatives 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.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same day, another team of officers intercepted a brown J5 bus along the Gbagada\u2013Oshodi expressway, with 439 kilograms of the same substance seized.\n<\/p>\n

In Oyo State, NDLEA operatives 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.\n<\/p>\n

The operation targeted a notorious drug dealer known as \u2018Omo Oba\u2019, who escaped arrest on 25th October when officers seized 309.5 kilograms of the strong cannabis strain popularly called \u2018Ghanaian Loud\u2019 linked to him.\n<\/p>\n

The NDLEA operatives raided a location in Tsamiya area of Gezawa, of Kano, where they recovered 247,500 tablets of diazepam weighing 57.7 kilograms and 100,000 tablets of Exol-5 weighing 38.7 kilograms.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo days later, on Wednesday 28th October, another team of officers stormed Dorayi area of the state, where they arrested Ziya\u2019ulhaq Abdullahi, 35, and Garba Muhammed, 52, with 19,250 pills of tramadol 225mg weighing 13.6 kilograms\u201d, he said.\n<\/p>\n

Babafemi also revealed that NDLEA operatives on patrol along the Abuja\u2013Kaduna expressway have arrested a woman, Aisha Isah, at the toll gate with 266 rounds of live AK-47 ammunition.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Zaria\u2013Kano expressway, a 68-year-old man, Ifeanyi Egwolonwu, was arrested at Gwargwaje, Zaria, with 2,770 ampoules of pentazocine injection, 100 ampoules of diazepam injection, 11,000 tablets of diazepam and 4,500 tablets of Exol-5.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a raid at Tashan Banke area of the state, officers also arrested seven suspects, including Faisal Adamu, and recovered 178.85 kilograms of cannabis alongside quantities of diazepam, tramadol, Exol-5 and pregabalin\u201d, Babafemi noted.\n<\/p>\n

In Ondo State, NDLEA operatives on Sunday 25th October acting on credible intelligence raided cannabis farms in Ijare forest, where they arrested four suspects including Bassey Okon, 24; Abraham Edet, 20; and Oto Udo, 24. A total of 16 bags of processed cannabis weighing 180 kilograms were recovered from the farms.<\/p>\n

Similarly, a team of NDLEA operatives supported by soldiers also raided Eko Camp in Ilushi, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State, where a cannabis plantation measuring 1.646 hectares with an estimated yield of 4,115.53 kilograms was destroyed.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cA 50-year-old woman, Christiana Uboi, was arrested at the camp with 301 kilograms of processed cannabis, while another 176 kilograms of the drug was recovered during the raid\u201d, Babafemi added.\n<\/p>\n

In Sokoto, operatives of Zone 7 Command of NDLEA, acting on credible intelligence, on Saturday 31st October arrested a 68-year-old man, Ibrahim Ayuba, with 236.6 kilograms of skunk.\n<\/p>\n

The Agency\u2019s Commands and formations across the country have also continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitization activities in schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.\n<\/p>\n

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