Iran-bound woman arrested with cocaine hidden in private parts as NDLEA seize over 6,400kg of illegal drugs
A woman’s desperate attempt to smuggle cocaine concealed in her private parts, stomach, and handbag was foiled by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers State.
The suspect, identified as Ihensekhien Miracle Obehi, was intercepted on Sunday, May 3, 2025, while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight to Iran via Doha. According to NDLEA spokesperson, Mr. Femi Babafemi, Obehi disguised in a hijab in a bid to evade security checks. However, upon a thorough search, officers discovered three wraps of cocaine hidden in her private parts, two parcels concealed in a false bottom of her handbag, and 67 pellets swallowed.
She was placed under medical observation and later excreted all 67 wraps. Obehi admitted she was instructed to ingest 70 pellets but managed to swallow only 67, opting to hide the remaining three internally. The total weight of the cocaine found on her was 2.523 kilograms.
In a separate operation, NDLEA officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Friday, May 9, arrested a 22-year-old British national, Campell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer. Slifer, arriving from Thailand via Doha, was found with 35 parcels of Loud—a potent variant of cannabis—weighing 37.6kg. He confessed to previous convictions for drug trafficking and robbery in the UK and revealed he was recruited in London to smuggle the drugs into Nigeria.
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Similarly, on Wednesday, May 7, NDLEA operatives in Niger State intercepted a fuel tanker and three other vehicles on the Suleja-Kaduna road. The vehicles were transporting 246 bags of skunk with a combined weight of 3,047kg. Four suspects—Christopher Onyema (47), Benedict Etineruba Young (54), Chukwudi Ujue Jerry (30), and Mohammed Abdullahi Danasabe—were arrested. Vehicles recovered included a fuel tanker (ABJ 693 XU), and three buses marked YAB 667 CZ, GWA 125 TQ, and ABJ 230 CN.
In other parts of the country:
Two suspects, Eze Chekube Emmanuel and Ike Samuel Chinyerem, were arrested at Oja Amukoko in Lagos on Thursday, May 8, with 109,914 pills of tramadol, swinol, and nitrazepam.
In Kaduna State, 52.5kg of skunk was recovered from Lukman Sabo Umar (23) and Tukur Ammadu (20) in a commercial bus at Gwantu, Sanga LGA on Tuesday, May 6.
In Kwara State, 45,400 pills of tramadol were seized from Rufai Nasiru along the Bode Saadu–Jebba expressway on Monday, May 5.
In Bauchi State, officers intercepted a Toyota Tundra truck along Bauchi-Gombe road on May 6 with 526 blocks of skunk weighing 505kg. Two suspects, Isaac Onogure (37) and Ikechukwu Peter (44), were taken into custody.
In Kano, a raid on a hideout in Rijiyar Zaki on Saturday, May 10, led to the seizure of 31 kegs of codeine syrup totaling 775 litres. Two suspects, Hafizu Isa Uman (34) and Ismail Shehu (48), were arrested.
On May 6, NDLEA also intercepted a 1.1kg consignment of Loud cannabis concealed in a pillow, shipped from Thailand, at a courier company in Lagos.
Meanwhile, the NDLEA’s anti-drug advocacy campaign, War Against Drug Abuse (WADA), continued nationwide. Awareness lectures were held at institutions including Federal Government College, Sokoto; Deeper Life International College, Anambra; Martins Sanda Girls Science College, Niger; Restoration Power International School, Akwa Ibom; and Iseyin Central Mosque, Oyo State, among others.
Chairman and Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), commended the operatives across Port Harcourt, Lagos, Kano, Niger, Kwara, Kaduna, and Bauchi for their diligence. He also praised officers nationwide for their balanced efforts in both drug supply suppression and demand reduction .e.
By PRNigeria
