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NDLEA arrests two Europe-bound Nigerians with 200 cocaine wraps

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested two Nigerians based in Europe after they allegedly ingested 200 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.46Kg while attempting to travel from Abuja to Paris, France.

The suspects, identified as Aliocus Odife and Sam Blackborn, were arrested on Wednesday, October 28, during the outward clearance of an Air France flight, AF 832, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The NDLEA, in a statement on Sunday by its spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said the suspects, who had returned to Nigeria for holidays, were arrested after body scans confirmed that they had ingested illicit substances.

Babafemi said Odife, who lives in France and works in a factory, arrived in Nigeria on October 21 for a short holiday but was arrested while attempting to return to Europe.

He said he confessed to ingesting 110 wraps of cocaine, which he subsequently excreted under observation. The drugs weighed 1.901kg.

The statement partly read, “Two Europe-based Nigerian ‘businessmen’ who flew home on holiday and attempted to return to Paris, France with their bellies loaded with cocaine have been arrested by operatives of the NDLEA at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

“The duo, Aliocus Godian Odife and Sam Blackborn, were intercepted on Wednesday, 28th October 2026, during the outward clearance of Air France flight AF 832 from Abuja to Paris. Both men have excreted a total of 200 wraps of the Class A drug weighing 3.460 kilogrammes.

“Odife, who claims to live in France where he works in a factory, had arrived in Nigeria for a short holiday on 21st October.

“He was, however, arrested by NDLEA operatives on his return flight a few days later, when he was subjected to a body scan, which confirmed the presence of foreign objects in his stomach.

“Under 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 kilogrammes.”

Babafemi said his co-traveller, Blackborn, also tested positive during a body scan and confessed to swallowing 90 wraps of cocaine.

According to the agency, he excreted all the wraps under observation, with the substances weighing 1.559kg.

The NDLEA also reported several drug seizures and arrests across the country, including the recovery of 976kg of cannabis from two commercial buses in Lagos.

In Oyo State, two suspects, Oguntona Nasiru, 46, and Soji Balogun, 47, were arrested on Thursday, October 29, while allegedly loading 554kg of cannabis into a truck along Idere Road, Igboora.

In Kano State, operatives recovered 247,500 tablets of diazepam weighing 57.7kg and 100,000 tablets of Exol-5 weighing 38.7kg during a raid in the Tsamiya area of Gezawa.

The agency also arrested two men with 19,250 pills of tramadol in Dorayi, Kano.

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on patrol along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway arrested a woman, Aisha Isah, with 266 rounds of live AK-47 ammunition.

In another operation along the Zaria-Kano Expressway, a 68-year-old man, Ifeanyi Egwolonwu, was arrested with 2,770 ampoules of pentazocine injection, 100 ampoules of diazepam injection, 11,000 tablets of diazepam and 4,500 tablets of Exol-5.

In the statement, Babafemi quoted the agency’s Chairman, Brig-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.), as warning Nigerians living abroad against using their overseas residence as cover for drug trafficking.

Marwa said, “The interception of the two cocaine couriers at Abuja airport is a fresh warning to those who think they can use their residence abroad as cover to traffic drugs across Nigerian borders.”

He added that NDLEA operatives at all entry and exit points remained vigilant.

“There is no hiding place for anyone who chooses to risk their life and liberty by ingesting illicit drugs for a fee,” he said.

The NDLEA chairman commended officers of the agency’s commands in Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Ondo, Oyo and Edo states for the arrests and seizures.

He also urged officers to sustain the fight against drug trafficking and intensify drug demand reduction campaigns under the War Against Drug Abuse initiative.

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Something your president did several years ago, that is what you are doing now, both of you are not serious

Hmm...May God help us all
Nigeria

Them no dey tire for this drugs pushing? How much them even dey pay them sef?

The evil that men do.... Shebi our Commander-in-th!ef too is a comrade 😎

E choke o

Melezenawii:
NDLEA arrests two Europe-bound Nigerians with 200 cocaine wraps



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Who will advice the young ones when the elders are doing same

Those people will be confuse by now. The tribal biiiigoooot over to you.

DuttyChuks:
Those people will be confuse by now. The tribal biiiigoooot over to you.

You are the one making it tribal... But you say na una full there...

If I talk Seun and his children will ban me...so let me pass

agulion:
Something your president did several years ago, that is what you are doing now, both of you are not serious

PheelzAlmighty:
The evil that men do.... Shebi our Commander-in-th!ef too is a comrade 😎

E choke o

Mehnnn.. Shame on you both.

Their mentor dey Saudi now. If the head is not correct the body cannot work, so Tinubu being the head is affecting the body who are the citizens with his drug dealing achievement plus his policies are very harsh and demonic.

Come 2027, Thief-nubu must go!!! for sanity to return.

What on earth were they expecting? They had to pass through the scanner at the airport. Where they expecting the scanner to fail or something?

Always ruining the image of the country abroad.

We will not accept sabotage of Peter Obi by arresting his supporters.

NDLEA has to take a chill pill.

Suspend all these arrests till May 2027 when Peter will pardon at least 10 million of his supporters

ampoules of pentazocine injection, 100 ampoules of diazepam injection, 11,000 tablets of diazepam and 4,500 tablets of Exol-5.

Why are some of those other injections labed as drugs? There are legitimate companies producing them now

At least no one will be vandalising the billboards they are carrying.,.

agulion:
Something your president did several years ago, that is what you are doing now, both of you are not serious

Don't mind dem.

They should go for mentoring

All these juju no dey work for scanner, just give each 20 years each

If they had been successful, they'll come back to call others lazy while flaunting their ill gotten wealth

What can make people risk something like this ,when you are living in europe and you are documented, if not for illiteracy and peer pressure to belong .maximum things you can achieve with this is to build house ,buy cars, carry low iq slay queens, all these can be achieved without risking your life especially when you live in western world.

Dem don use drug trafficking swear for these people.

Old men, Omorr nawa oooooo

I think it's high time the Nigerian government started sentencing these drug pushers to life in prison with hard labour.
Maybe that would deter those ones still planning to go into the trade.

There's no need checking any names, we already know them.

I knew beforehand they must be uncle Bola's diehard supporters and I have been vindicated. The two were said to have been operating underground financing APC and uncle Bola's reelection for their respective states.

Like the leader like his supporters.

What Nigerian parent would name their pikin Blackburn?

How do these guys swallow 110 wraps of drugs.... I can't even swallow 100 balls of akpu or amala with draw soup... Nawa o

yemre:
I think it's high time the Nigerian government started sentencing these drug pushers to life in prison with hard labour.
Maybe that would deter those ones still planning to go into the trade.

There's no need checking any names, we already know them.

Life? More like death sentence

None are the names of your worst nightmares

seunmsg:
Always ruining the image of the country abroad.