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NDLEA Arrests American Basketball Player With 34kg Cannabis At Lagos Airport
The suspect allegedly abandoned two checked bags before arrest, and NDLEA said forensic evidence linked him to the trafficking scheme.
- On Wednesday, November 11, 2026, NDLEA operatives arrested Chinedu Onwude, alias Omokan Isaac Babatope, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos after recovering 25.05kg of methamphetamine concealed in breakfast cereal packs upon his return from South Africa.
- Onwude allegedly lived in South Africa for over 24 years using a stolen identity and confessed to using forged documents; a South Africa-based contact contracted him to deliver the consignment for R20,000.
- In a separate airport interception, operatives arrested an American professional basketball player with 33.95kg of Loud; NDLEA also uncovered an illegal firearms manufacturing factory in Kaduna State with 17 locally made Dane guns and 25 Dane gun pipes.
- NDLEA Chairman Mohamed Buba Marwa commended officers for their vigilance, stating, "Concealment methods could not defeat the agency," regarding the cereal pack discovery.
- These nationwide operations across Lagos, Kaduna, Ondo, Delta, Edo, and Osun states resulted in widespread illicit seizures, including 499.3kg of cannabis and 3,840 tramadol tablets.
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LAGOS — Nigeria's anti-narcotics agency on Sunday said it had arrested an American professional basketball player with 33.95 kilograms of cannabis in his luggage on arrival...
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NDLEA Busts Drug Trafficking, Illegal Gun Factory
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 25.05kg of methamphetamine concealed in breakfast cereal packs from South Africa at Lagos airport, arrested an American basketball player over cannabis trafficking, ng and dismantled an illegal firearms factory in Kaduna. The operations, conducted between November 9 and 14, 2026, also led to major drug seizures and […]
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