...Nabs Okada rider with 100 wraps of meths
By RhemDy News
A 38-year-old South African lady, Ms. Will Jessica Ann, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja for allegedly concealing 14 large blocks of heroin weighing 5.75 kilograms in her luggage.
Ms Ann was also apprehended for using her three-year-old son as a cover to beat security checks and evade thorough screening.
Spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, disclosed in a statement on Sunday that the suspect was arrested on Monday July 6, 2026, during the inward clearance of passengers on Qatar Airways flight QR 1433 from Doha to Abuja.
Although she initially denied travelling with check-in bags, but after NDLEA operatives quickly established that the two bags containing the drugs had tags which tallied with the claim tags attached to her passport, she recounted and admitted ownership of the bags.
She added that she forgot that she checked in the two bags, claiming to have travelled from Cambodia through Doha to Abuja.
Intelligence leading to her arrests indicates that the suspect is a member of a transnational drug trafficking organisation along with her husband or partner, Jan Coenraad De Jager, based in Cambodia from where they operate their drug network along the Cambodian-South African axis.
In another successful interdiction operation, NDLEA officers at the terminal 2 arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, arrested a commercial motorcycle operator popularly known as ‘Okada rider’ on June 26, 2026.
The 48-year-old rider, Onyechere Daniel Chinadu, was apprehended following his arrival from Madagascar via Addis Ababa aboard an Ethiopian Airways flight.
A thorough search of his back pack, which he had checked in, led to the discovery of 87 wraps of methamphetamine concealed within cloths in his bag.
In his statement, Onyechere claimed he has been working for 15 years as an Okada rider at Oke-Afo area of Lagos before his Uganda based friend recruited him into drug trafficking.
He confessed to have ingested the recovered pellets of methamphetamine in Uganda before embarking on his planned journey to Madagascar to deliver the drug consignment.
He however said that upon arrival in Madagascar, he was denied entry by Immigration authorities.
As a result, his friend and sponsor, Ozor Igo, based in Uganda rerouted his flight to Lagos, where he was eventually arrested by NDLEA officers.
The suspect was unable to state the exact number of pellets he had ingested in Uganda and as a result, he was placed under excretion observation for a period of three days.
Between the date of his arrest and July 1st, the suspect excreteed 13 pellets in addition to the initial 87 wraps recovered from him, bringing the total number to 100 wraps of methamphetamine with a gross weight of 1.715 kilograms.
At the Apapa seaport in Lagos, a total of 8,287 nylon bags of Canadian Loud weighing 4,143.5 kilograms worth over N10.3 billion in street value were discovered in a container imported from Canada during a joint examination of the shipment by NDLEA officers, Customs personnel and other security agencies on Friday July 10, 2026.
The discovery followed weeks of targeted tracking and monitoring of the shipment since its departure from Montreal, Canada, by operatives of the Maritime Intelligence Unit of NDLEA in close collaboration with the Apapa Strategic Command of the Agency.
Meanwhile, an attempt to export a 2.5kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, concealed in a gas compressor going to Cyprus through a courier company in Lagos has been thwarted by NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI).
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