The Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has arrested a Lagos-based clothier, Mrs. Ifeoma Henrietta Ezewuike, for making an attempt to visitors 1.3 kilograms of cocaine to Abuja whereas pretending to be pregnant.
Ezewuike, 50, who runs Golden Star Creation, a vogue enterprise in In the past Palace Approach, Okota, was apprehended on Friday, August 22, 2025, at a bus terminal in Jibowu, Yaba, Lagos.
Her arrest was disclosed in an announcement issued on Sunday, August 24, 2025, by NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi.
In keeping with the company, the suspect hid the medication by strapping them to her physique below a faux child bump.
“A 50-year-old widow and clothier, Mrs. Ifeoma Henrietta Ezewuike has been arrested by operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) over try to visitors 1.3 kilograms of cocaine, utilizing faux being pregnant as a façade to flee scrutiny and detection.
“The widow who’s a mom of 1 and proprietress of Golden Star Creation, a vogue outfit in In the past palace approach, Okota Lagos, was arrested at a bus terminal in Jibowu, Yaba space of the state on Friday twenty second August 2025 whereas making an attempt to maneuver the cocaine consignment to prospects in Abuja,” the assertion learn partly.
A follow-up search at her residence in In the past Palace led to the restoration of 200 grams of a chopping agent utilized in processing cocaine. NDLEA added that in her assertion, she admitted inheriting the legal commerce from her late husband however claimed she had additionally run her vogue enterprise for twenty years.
Extra insights
In associated operations throughout the week, the NDLEA disclosed in its assertion that operatives intercepted 90 parcels of hashish “loud” weighing 48.6kg, hid in cartons of kitchen sinks at a courier firm in Lagos. In Adamawa, officers raided the house of a infamous seller the place 354,480 capsules of tramadol had been recovered, whereas in Kano, one other 452,070 capsules of opioids had been seized from totally different suspects and hideouts.
In Kwara State, operatives intercepted a number of truckloads of hashish (“skunk”) on main highways, with the mixed haul weighing over 2,200 kilograms. The company additionally destroyed giant hashish farms uncovered in Delta, Edo, Taraba, and Ondo States.
What you must know
The NDLEA has ramped up its warfare towards drug trafficking and abuse over the past 54 months, recording vital seizures and arrests throughout the nation.
- The company additionally destroyed 1,572 hectares of hashish farms, largely in South-West states, the place farmlands had been diverted to illicit cultivation. These operations, mixed with frequent interceptions at airports, highways, and courier corporations, spotlight the company’s willpower to curb the rising drug menace.
With seizures working into tens of millions of kilogrammes, large-scale farm destruction, and tens of hundreds of arrests, the NDLEA’s efforts mark a sustained crackdown that continues to reshape Nigeria’s anti-narcotics fight.