Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 63-year-old Chinese woman, Ting Hung Kiong, for allegedly attempting to smuggle 31 kilogrammes of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, into Nigeria.
The suspect, who is said to have naturalised in Malaysia, was arrested on Sunday, May 17, 2026, on arrival from Thailand through Dubai aboard an Emirates Airline flight.
She was intercepted by NDLEA operatives at the Terminal 2 Arrival Hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
According to the agency, investigation showed that the suspect travelled from Malaysia to Thailand before heading to Nigeria through the United Arab Emirates with two large boxes containing the illicit consignment.
During interrogation, the woman reportedly claimed she works as a caregiver in Malaysia and that her daughter sponsored her trip from Malaysia to Thailand and Nigeria.
She allegedly told investigators that after spending two weeks in Thailand, she was handed the consignment at the airport to deliver in Nigeria.
In another operation at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives recovered a major shipment of Tapentadol tablets imported from India.
The agency said the consignment, which arrived aboard an Emirates Cargo flight, was monitored until it was handed over by the Nigeria Customs Service on Friday, May 22.
The 29 cartons contained 1,825,710 tablets of Tapentadol 250mg valued at ₦2,190,852,000.
At the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, operatives arrested Onyeka Valentine Emeka during clearance of passengers on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Sierra Leone through Addis Ababa.
The suspect was placed under observation and later excreted 185.36 grammes of cocaine.
At the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, a 29-year-old building engineer, Babatunde Prosper Afekhide, was arrested while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Milan, Italy.
A search of his luggage allegedly led to the recovery of 10,280 pills of Tramaking, Tramadol and Tapentadol concealed in a carton inside his suitcase.
NDLEA operatives also intercepted illicit drugs at a courier company in Lagos.
The seizures included 1,174 pills of MDMA concealed in a bicycle luggage carrier heading to the Netherlands, 66 tramadol tablets hidden in a soap container bound for the United States, and 18 tramadol tablets concealed in a body cream container heading to the United Kingdom.
In Edo State, operatives raided Igwe community in Owan East Local Government Area, where 59 jumbo bags of skunk weighing 489kg and cannabis seeds weighing 9kg were recovered.
In Kano, Isah Sani, 30, was arrested along the Zaria-Kano road with 196,000 pills of Exol-5.
At Seme border in Lagos, officers recovered 59kg of skunk from a warehouse in Mowo, Badagry.
In Ekiti State, NDLEA operatives raided a warehouse in Ikole-Ekiti and recovered 1,116kg of skunk. A 54-year-old suspect, Ogundana Adebayo Julius, was arrested in connection with the seizure.
NDLEA Chairman, Mohamed Buba Marwa, commended officers involved in the arrests and seizures across Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Edo, Ekiti, Kano and Seme.
He urged commands across the country to sustain the tempo of operations while continuing the agency’s War Against Drug Abuse sensitisation campaigns in schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities.
