The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has detained a 35-year-old woman, Chidinma Chinenye Agbazue, for attempting to smuggle 20 parcels of cannabis sativa weighing 10.70 kilograms.

She concealed the drugs in African salad (Abacha) and dried vegetables, intending to export them to Doha, Qatar, through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos state.

NDLEA officers, in collaboration with the Department of State Security, intercepted Chidinma at the screening point of terminal 11 of MMIA. She was an outbound passenger from Lagos to Doha on Qatar Airways. Chidinma, who had been in Qatar but returned to Nigeria in December for Christmas, stated that she was staying at Club Dice Hotel in the Ikotun area of Lagos, where she was given the drugs for trafficking to Qatar.

In a separate incident, NDLEA operatives arrested two suspects, Monday Okeke and Chigozie Emeka, in Oniwaya, Yaba, and Agege areas of Lagos on Tuesday, 26th March. They seized 842,560 pills of opioids, especially tramadol, along with 15 liters of codeine syrup and 596 grams of Molly from them. Okeke attempted to bribe the NDLEA officers with N5 million cash, which was refused, and the money was documented as part of the exhibits to prosecute the suspects in court.