The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has arrested a Lagos-based dressmaker, Mrs. Ifeoma Henrietta Ezewuike, for trying to visitors 1.3 kilograms of cocaine to Abuja whereas pretending to be pregnant.
Ezewuike, 50, who runs Golden Star Creation, a trend enterprise in In the past Palace Approach, Okota, was apprehended on Friday, August 22, 2025, at a bus terminal in Jibowu, Yaba, Lagos.
Her arrest was disclosed in a press release issued on Sunday, August 24, 2025, by NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi.
In response to the company, the suspect hid the medication by strapping them to her physique underneath a pretend child bump.
“A 50-year-old widow and dressmaker, Mrs. Ifeoma Henrietta Ezewuike has been arrested by operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) over try to visitors 1.3 kilograms of cocaine, utilizing pretend being pregnant as a façade to flee scrutiny and detection.
“The widow who’s a mom of 1 and proprietress of Golden Star Creation, a trend outfit in In the past palace method, Okota Lagos, was arrested at a bus terminal in Jibowu, Yaba space of the state on Friday twenty second August 2025 whereas trying to maneuver the cocaine consignment to prospects in Abuja,” the assertion learn partially.
A follow-up search at her residence in In the past Palace led to the restoration of 200 grams of a slicing agent utilized in processing cocaine. NDLEA added that in her assertion, she admitted inheriting the legal commerce from her late husband however claimed she had additionally run her trend enterprise for 20 years.
In associated operations in the course of the week, the NDLEA disclosed in its assertion that operatives intercepted 90 parcels of hashish “loud” weighing 48.6kg, hid in cartons of kitchen sinks at a courier firm in Lagos. In Adamawa, officers raided the house of a infamous supplier the place 354,480 tablets of tramadol had been recovered, whereas in Kano, one other 452,070 tablets of opioids had been seized from totally different suspects and hideouts.
In Kwara State, operatives intercepted a number of truckloads of hashish (“skunk”) on main highways, with the mixed haul weighing over 2,200 kilograms. The company additionally destroyed giant hashish farms uncovered in Delta, Edo, Taraba, and Ondo States.
The NDLEA has ramped up its struggle towards drug trafficking and abuse during the last 54 months, recording important seizures and arrests throughout the nation.
With seizures operating into thousands and thousands of kilogrammes, large-scale farm destruction, and tens of hundreds of arrests, the NDLEA’s efforts mark a sustained crackdown that continues to reshape Nigeria’s anti-narcotics fight.
