The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has rearrested an 83-year-old woman in Abia State, months after she and her daughter had been convicted of drug offences and fined N200,000 every.
In an announcement on Sunday by NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi, the woman, Uloma Sunday, was arrested at her residence in Ite-Uzo, Umuaguma, Obingwa Local Government Area, on 7 October.
The company acknowledged that officers discovered methamphetamine and Colorado, an artificial cannabinoid, hid round her waist in a wrapper.
The NDLEA stated her arrest adopted intelligence reviews that she was working a drug joint the place felony suspects gathered and allegedly terrorised residents.
The company revealed that Ms Sunday was beforehand arrested on the identical tackle on 17 May 2025, alongside her 32-year-old daughter, Chisom Uchechi. Officers recovered 50 grammes of methamphetamine, 522 grammes of skunk, 260 grammes of contemporary hashish leaves and 12 grammes of tramadol.
Both ladies pleaded responsible and had been sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment or a N200,000 advantageous every. They paid the fines and had been launched.
The NDLEA didn’t say whether or not it charged Ms Sunday after her newest arrest.
South African woman arrested at Port Harcourt airport
In a separate operation, officers arrested a South African woman, Gebashe Sithandiwe Jessie, on the Port Harcourt International Airport with 30 parcels of hashish generally known as Thai Loud, weighing 32.74 kilogrammes.
The parcels had been hid in two travelling baggage. The NDLEA stated Ms Jessie arrived from Thailand by way of Doha aboard a Qatar Airways flight.
She reportedly advised investigators that she had beforehand trafficked medicine by way of different African international locations and needed to increase her operations to Port Harcourt.
NDLEA intercepts 354,000 tapentadol tablets in Lagos
At the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, officers intercepted 9 cartons containing 354,000 tapentadol tablets shipped from Pakistan.
The consignment arrived aboard a Royal Air Maroc flight on 29 September and was examined on 6 October. The tablets had been labelled 250 milligrammes every, and the cargo weighed 307.2 kilogrammes, the company stated.
Officers additionally recovered 70 parcels of Colorado weighing 75.9 kilogrammes from six ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ baggage in a cargo from the United Kingdom.
The cargo arrived on 29 September and was positioned underneath surveillance, in response to the NDLEA. A clearing agent, John Edrah, 54, was arrested on 30 September.
Taofiq Ajibola, 54, an Uber driver, was later arrested whereas gathering one of many baggage at a logistics firm in Mafoluku, Oshodi. Adetunji Adebayo and Kazeem Damola Dosunmu, 48, a clothes dealer, had been arrested after they arrived to gather the remaining baggage.
The company famous that Mr Ajibola recognized a UK-based affiliate, Lukman Sa’idu, as the one who despatched his consignment, whereas Mr Dosunmu named one other UK-based man, generally known as Yusuf, because the sender of his medicine.
Cannabis and opioid seizures throughout states
The company reported additional arrests and seizures in Cross River, Edo, Ondo, Taraba, Kano, Kaduna and Lagos states.
In Cross River, officers arrested Adama Inuwa, 46, in Iyala Nkun village, Ikom Local Government Area, on 4 October. They recovered 181 baggage of hashish weighing 1,100 kilogrammes and 17.15 kilogrammes of hashish seeds.
In Edo State, operatives intercepted a black Toyota Camry at Otuo, Owan East Local Government Area, on 5 October. The car contained 1,049 blocks of compressed hashish weighing 702.83 kilogrammes. Three males — Monday Orji, 52, Monday Lawal, 40, and Precious Uduegele, 20 — had been arrested.
In a separate raid in Benin City, officers arrested Ojugo Mercy, 26, in Asoro, off Sakponba Road. The NDLEA stated they recovered 989 grammes of Loud, 13 grammes of Colorado and 83 grammes of methamphetamine.
In Ondo State, officers arrested Happy Endurance, 21, within the Shasha space of Akure, recovering 29 baggage of hashish weighing 290 kilogrammes. They additionally raided an house in Oba-Ile, Akure, on the identical day and arrested Tunde Adebayo, 42, with 35 baggage of hashish weighing 351 kilogrammes.
In Taraba State, officers working with troopers arrested Abdulrasheed Mohamed, 31, and Abubakar Saidu, 37, in Chanchanji village, Wukari Local Government Area, on 9 October. The company stated they had been discovered with 166,200 tablets of tramadol, every labelled 225 milligrammes and weighing 107 kilogrammes in complete.
On the identical day, officers conducting a stop-and-search operation alongside the Kano-Maiduguri Road arrested Yahaya Musa, 32. They recovered 24,990 tramadol capsules, 50,000 tablets of diazepam and 22,000 tablets of Exol-5.
In Kaduna State, officers on patrol alongside the Zaria-Kaduna Expressway arrested Mohammed Musa, 29, with 31 jumbo baggage and 775 blocks of skunk weighing a mixed 1,027 kilogrammes.
In Orile, Lagos, operatives arrested Musbau Balogun Adekunle on 6 October and recovered 32.51 kilogrammes of skunk and 52.65 kilogrammes of its seeds.
NDLEA recovers firearms in Jos
In Plateau State, officers raided the residence of Christian Chukwudi Uju, 45, on Rukuba Road, Jos, on 8 October.
The NDLEA stated they recovered 47 grammes of methamphetamine, two pump-action rifles, a regionally made gun, 199 dwell cartridges, 5 rounds of seven.62mm ammunition and one spherical of 9mm ammunition.
The company didn’t state whether or not the firearms had been linked to some other felony exercise.
NDLEA Chairman Buba Marwa recommended officers concerned within the operations, praising their “professionalism and intelligence-driven approach”.
He urged personnel to maintain their efforts in opposition to drug trafficking and abuse.
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