Categories: Crimes

NDLEA intercepts Italy-bound drugs, nabs businessman, Beninoise lady

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a 36-year-old businessman, Nwanwene Robinson Destiny, with 1,020 pills of tramadol 225mg and tapentadol 200mg concealed in his luggage while attempting to board a Royal Air Maroc flight to Milan, Italy, where he’s based.

The businessman was arrested at the terminal II departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State, on December 18, 2025.

The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said the suspect claimed the successful trafficking of the opioids to Italy would have fetched him €200 from the person he was to deliver them to.

NDLEA nabs woman with N5bn cocaine hidden in children’s room

Babafemi stated that a 48-year-old Beninoise Leocardi Josu was also arrested by NDLEA officers at the Seme border in Badagry area of Lagos while attempting to cross into Nigeria with 3,400 tablets of tramadol 225mg.

He added that a 30-year-old suspect, Abdullahi Adamu, was nabbed along the Okene/Lokoja highway with 28.400kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, and Colorado, a synthetic cannabis on December 19.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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