Ugandan girl in Nigeria for church campaign arrested with 87 cocaine wraps

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 34-year-old Ugandan girl at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos after officers mentioned they discovered 87 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.15 kilograms hid beneath her clothes.

The company recognized the lady as Farida Nansubuga and mentioned she was intercepted at Terminal 2 on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, throughout a joint screening train with aviation safety personnel. She was as a consequence of board a Uganda Airlines flight residence.

The NDLEA mentioned an preliminary search indicated that Nansubuga had hid a substance round her pelvic area. Officers took her to a non-public room for an extra search.

“This led to the recovery of eighty-seven (87) wraps of cocaine with a gross weight of 1.150 kilograms, strapped around her pelvic region and held in place beneath two layers of underwear,” the company mentioned.

According to the NDLEA, Nansubuga informed investigators she arrived in Nigeria on October 29 with members of her church to attend a prayer session on the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos. She mentioned the opposite members of the delegation returned to Uganda after the session, whereas she stayed behind to gather a consignment for a pal in Uganda she recognized solely as Joy.

Nansubuga mentioned Joy put her in contact with a person in Nigeria who organized transport to a lodge on the morning of her departure. She informed investigators the person handed her the cocaine there and instructed her to cover it beneath her clothes to evade airport screening. She mentioned no charge had been agreed however that she anticipated to obtain at the least $1,000 if she delivered the package deal.

In a separate operation on the Lagos airport, the NDLEA mentioned it seized 750,000 tablets of tapentadol, an opioid, on Friday, November 6. The 250mg tablets weighed 526 kilograms and had an estimated avenue worth of ₦900 million, based on the company.

The cargo had been declared as 500mg paracetamol tablets and arrived on November 3 aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Ahmedabad, India. Officers positioned the 11 cartons underneath surveillance earlier than analyzing them with the Nigeria Customs Service and different companies. Ten cartons contained tapentadol, whereas the remaining carton contained paracetamol.

On November 4, officers on the airport’s import shed intercepted 32 parcels of a hashish pressure often called Loud, weighing 16.15 kilograms. The NDLEA mentioned the parcels have been hid inside two picket sofas in a consolidated cargo from Houston, Texas, that arrived aboard a Turkish Airlines flight. Officers arrested freight agent Ibrahim Abdulwaheed Adewale when he got here to clear the cargo. On November 6, they arrested Adeoye Sarafa Ojo, a 34-year-old caterer from Ibadan, when he got here to gather it. Ojo mentioned a pal, Taiwo Anuoluwapo Olusegun, had despatched him.

The company additionally reported intercepting 9 parcels hid in two cartons of snacks labelled “Michael Tea Guy” that arrived from the United Kingdom on an Air Peace flight on October 23. Two parcels contained 1.20 kilograms of hashish, whereas forensic testing recognized the contents of the opposite seven as chemical compounds used to make an artificial type of hashish often called Colorado.

Officers arrested Afolabi Abiodun Wale, a 51-year-old freight agent, when he got here to clear the cargo. Two extra cartons addressed to the identical recipient later arrived from the UK on an Allied Air flight. During an operation between October 26 and 28, officers arrested Okwuite Benjamin Ojone, 51, when he took supply of all 4 cartons. A search of the extra cartons uncovered three parcels weighing 3.30 kilograms inside detergent packs and 11 plastic bottles containing largely liquid substances weighing 16.25 kilograms. The company put the whole seizure at 1.20 kilograms of hashish and 28.65 kilograms of chemical compounds used to make artificial hashish.

At courier corporations in Lagos, officers intercepted 46 blocks of hashish weighing 22.2 kilograms in two UK-bound cartons on November 3. On October 30, they seized 296 Swinol tablets certain for Australia and three UK-bound tramadol shipments. Twenty capsules from Benin City and 96 from Sapele have been hidden in vitamin C containers, whereas 600 tablets of 225mg tramadol from Asaba have been hid in girls’s headwear.

In the Marine Beach space of Apapa, Lagos, officers arrested Abubakar Ali, 32, on November 6. The company mentioned it recovered 6.07 kilograms of hashish, 1.06 kilograms of 250mg tramadol, 1.27 kilograms of 225mg tramadol, 400 grams of pregabalin, 355 grams of diazepam and 200 millilitres of codeine from a space for storing inside his residence.

In Ondo State, the NDLEA mentioned officers recovered 148 luggage of hashish weighing 1,818 kilograms on Odofin Road in Uso on November 6. In a separate raid at Board Forest that day, officers destroyed one hectare of hashish crops, recovered 242 kilograms of the drug and arrested Itoro Linus Akpan, 36. In neighbouring Ekiti State, officers arrested Agbo Paul Peter, 53, at Osin Forest on November 5 with 216 kilograms of hashish and hashish seeds.

In Edo State, officers stopped a Volkswagen Golf carrying 19 luggage of hashish weighing 201 kilograms alongside the Auchi–Ibillo street on November 6. They arrested the driving force, Abdulmumid Isah, 39, and a passenger, Danako Godwin, 25. In a separate raid on Ihama Road in Benin City, officers arrested Emmanuel Sunday, 25, Samuel Bala, 31, and Loveth Momodu, 20, and reported recovering portions of Colorado, Loud and hashish.

In Taraba State, officers on the Lankaviri checkpoint in Yorro Local Government Area seized 283 blocks of compressed hashish weighing 226.255 kilograms over two days. The company mentioned it arrested Ibrahim Abdullahi, 45, with 156 blocks weighing 149.275 kilograms and Kabiru Usman, 25, with 80 blocks weighing 40.07 kilograms on November 5. Officers arrested Babangida Babayo, 32, the next day with 47 blocks weighing 36.91 kilograms.

In Enugu State, officers arrested Celestine Uzochukwu Ejiakor, 57, on the Eke Obinagu checkpoint on November 3 with 44 blocks of hashish weighing 22.5 kilograms. At the Ugwuoba checkpoint, they arrested Godwin Shaapera, 40, with 24,000 tramadol capsules weighing 13.4 kilograms and 697 grams of ketamine.

In Delta State, the company mentioned officers arrested Edugua Othuke, 30, in Ozoro on October 31 with 10.54 kilograms of skunk, 9.4 kilograms of hashish seeds and 4.3 grams of methamphetamine. Officers additionally arrested Akpofure Tobore, 34, in Upper Agbarho, Ughelli, on November 4 and reported recovering portions of skunk, tramadol, Rohypnol and laughing fuel.

The NDLEA mentioned its instructions additionally continued drug consciousness actions underneath its War Against Drug Abuse marketing campaign. Officers held periods at faculties in Oyo, Ebonyi, Kano and Anambra states, whereas the company’s Zone 1 Command visited the Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Rilwanu Sulaiman Adamu, at his palace.

NDLEA Chairman Mohamed Buba Marwa recommended officers concerned within the arrests and seizures. He mentioned Nansubuga’s case illustrated how trafficking networks might exploit spiritual journey to recruit couriers and urged officers to proceed efforts to curb each drug provide and demand.