Crime

Brazil Returnee Nabbed with 60 Wraps of Cocaine

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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Brazil returnee, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos for ingesting 60 big wraps of cocaine.

The suspect who was arrested during inward clearance of passengers on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos airport on Sunday 21st January 2024, initially refused to undergo a body scan, raising health concerns in a desperate bid to evade arrest.

When he was however offered other options, he accepted to be placed on excretion observation and shortly after he was ushered into the NDLEA observatory, he excreted the first set of cocaine pellets, after which he expelled a total of 60 wraps of the class ‘A’ drug weighing 1.279 kilograms in five excretions.

In his statement, Udechukwu claimed he ingested the consignment in Brazil and was to discharge everything at the airport in Addis Ababa but could only excrete 15 pellets which he handed over to another member of his syndicate before his connecting flight to Nigeria.

Similarly, NDLEA operatives at the Lagos airport on Tuesday 23rd January recovered a total of twelve (12) cartons of tramadol 225mg containing five hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred (599,900) pills weighing 385.40kg from an overstayed cargo at the SAHCO import shed of the Lagos airport after a joint examination with other agencies.

The tramadol consignment had come into the country in two batches on KLM Royal Dutch Airline flights from Karachi, Pakistan between 27th July and 1st August 2023. They were however placed under watch by NDLEA operatives since then.

Meanwhile, not less than 822 kilograms of cannabis sativa hidden in a fuel station located at Ashipa community along Badagry-Seme road were recovered by operatives of the Seme Special Area Command of NDLEA, while a suspect Sani Audu, 35, was arrested with 111.3kg of same substance at Maigatari town in Jigawa State on Tuesday 23rd January.

In Yobe state, two suspects: Mohammed Usman and Adamu Ma’azu were arrested on Saturday 27th January with 49 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 50kg at Damaturu motor park, Damaturu, while the duo of Paul Obor, 38, and Dennis Fuokorighe, 48, who were arrested on Wednesday 24th January at a Navy check point, Itobe, Ofu LGA, Kogi state with 318 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 190.8kg concealed in a gold colour Honda Accord Car marked RBC 449AE.

They were handed over to the Kogi state command of the Agency on Friday 26th Jan. by men of the Nigeria Navy Ship, Lugard, Lokoja.

In a similar vein, a suspect, Shamwilu Idris, 29, was arrested at Gadar Tamburawa area of Kano State on Thursday 25th January with 271kg cannabis following the seizure of an abandoned 28.1kg of same substance at Rijiyar Lemo area of the state on Wednesday 24th Jan.

Another suspect, Abubakar Haruna Salisu, 24, was nabbed at Kotun Wambai, Yan Awaki, area of Kano on Friday 26th January with 600 bottles of codeine-based syrup while a total of 1, 306 blocks of cannabis weighing 886kg seized by the Police at Kwanar Dangora, area of the state were transferred to the Agency on Wednesday 24th Jan.

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Crime

NAF Thwarts MMIA Cable Theft, Apprehends Suspect

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Nigeria Air Force officials have arrested one suspected armoured cable thief at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, in Lagos.

The suspect, according to a statement on Friday by the Director Public Affairs  & Consumer Protection of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Abdullahi  Yakubu-Funtua, and two others were sighted digging FAAN  underground armored cable with the aid of a digger, shovel, and cutlass.

MMIA Authority said it believes the incident could be a clue to unraveling the theft of the Runway Lighting at the Murtala  Muhammed  International  Airport, Ikeja.

The statement reads: “At about  01:35hrs  on July 21, 2023, the guards on duty at the  Nigeria Airforce  HQ NADC gate halted three cable thieves along the airport road by NADC perimeter fence who were sighted digging the FAAN  underground armored cable with the aid of a digger,  shovel, and cutlass.

“On sighting the guards, they took to their heels. A guard however opened fire on them, aiming at the shoulder of Usman  Musa.

Usman Musa, 28 years old, a native of Adamawa State, residing at Ijora sustained gunshot wounds.

“He was subsequently arrested  and taken  to 661NAFH Ikeja.”

The statement continues: “He is presently receiving treatment at General  Hospital  Oyingbo while his other two accomplices escaped.

“Usman Musa will be properly interrogated after he has stabilised.  

“The Authority believes that this incident could be a relevant clue to unraveling the theft of the Runway  Lighting at the Murtala  Muhammed  International  Airport, Ikeja”.

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Religion

First Batch of Osun Hajj Pilgrims Arrives Lagos

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By Folake Oye

387 Osun hajj pilgrims have successfully landed in Lagos.

The Secretary of the Board, Mr Bolaji Sanni made this known in a statement issued to newsmen on behalf of the Amir Hajj, Sheik Moruf Ishola.

Sheik Ishola also disclosed that the second batch of 385 contingents has already departed the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and due to land at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, any moment from now.

 Expressing his delight over the development, Sheik Ishola described the successful completion of all hajj rites in 2023 by the Osun Muslim contingent as a thing of joy and total glorification to almighty Allah for his love and mercies on the pilgrims.

 He appreciated the Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke for providing necessary wherewithal that culminated into the success story of the pilgrimage.

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Crime

NDLEA Nabs Man with 5000 Tablets of Tramadol at Lagos Airport

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A 53-year-old man with a disability, Ehiarimwiam Osaromo Emmanuel, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos for drug trafficking.

Ehiarimwiam was arrested on Sunday 28th August on his way to Italy, via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight and found to have concealed 5,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg in his luggage.

Preliminary investigation as contained in a statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi reveals that the suspect is a frequent traveller who often travels with lots of bags containing mainly food items, body cream, hair attachment and drinks.

According to the statement, the suspect was said to have presented his usual large consignment to NDLEA operatives for search but held on to some packages, which were retrieved from him and properly searched during which the drugs were discovered.

crystal methamphetamine

Mr Babafemi also said, as part of ongoing efforts to demobilise and dismantle all organised criminal groups behind the production and distribution of crystal methamphetamine across the country, NDLEA operatives on Monday 29th August raided a suspected clandestine laboratory at Opic estate, Agbara, Lagos.

Clues from the property led operatives to another in the vicinity where one Peter James was apprehended with some quantity of the substance and a follow up operation within the estate also led to the arrest of a meth dealer, Mathew Bobby Imonitie, who was caught with 4.033kilograms of the illicit substance.

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Transportation

Murtala Muhammed International Airport Commences Operations

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The Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos has commenced operations as passengers await boarding for the first flight.

The first commercial scheduled flight Middle East Airline, MEA, touched down at the Lagos airport at 1.20 pm local time from Beirut and was ceremonially welcomed with a water cannon demonstration by the men of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN Aerodrome and Rescue Fire Fighters.

On arrival, passengers presented their documents including their COVID-19 PCR test results for screening by the Port Health services officials while the traveling papers, passports and visas where handled by the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS.

Speaking on the procedures, the Comptroller NIS MMIA, Abdullahi Usman said the process was seamless and passengers were cooperative when traveling documents were requested by the officials.

The Airport Manager, Mrs. Victoria Shinaba said while the airport was on shut to commercial scheduled flights, the airport recorded over a hundred special and essential flights approved by the Federal government.

She said they would continue to improve on the procedures for facilitation and appealed to Nigerians to stay off the airport terminal if they are not traveling.

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