NDLEA intercepts drugs packaged as Xmas cookies, nabs distributors in Lagos

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered and dismantled a social media network used to distribute illicit substances packaged as imported Christmas cookies and snacks in Lagos State.

The NDLEA officers also arrested two masterminds after a raid on their hideout in Lekki area of Lagos.

The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this via a statement issued on Sunday, November 30, 2025.

The drug syndicate run by the duo of Deji Adesanya and Olubiyi Majekodunmi had imported consignments of Canadian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, and a variety of colourful designer sachets with pictures and labels of cookies and snacks printed on them, and used to package the psychoactive substance in retail quantities.

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Babafemi said the anti-narcotic officers, following credible intelligence about the activities of the syndicate which operates and distributes through a WhatsApp platform, on Saturday, November 22, raided their apartment in the Ikate area of Lekki, where a large quantity of the designer sachets and 5kilograms of Loud were recovered from them at the point of their arrest.

Babafemi stated that the NDLEA operatives, in another operation in Lagos, on Thursday, November 27, arrested a 38-year-old drug kingpin, Philip Ucheka, while taking delivery of 110 pouches of Canadian Loud weighing 55.6kg at Ladipo area of Mushin.

He noted that three delivery vehicles were also seized from the suspect.

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