Eben Enasco Reporting
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, has intercepted two major drug trafficking attempts.
A 35-year-old Kano-based businesswoman, Rabi Muhammad, was caught with 3,200 capsules of tramadol hidden in a fake pregnancy bump at the Seme land border.
According to multiple reports, she was attempting to smuggle the drugs to Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Elsewhere, an Ivorian National, Michael Gohouri, 41, was arrested at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport with 82 wraps of cocaine 1.49kg ingested in his body.
He was on his way to Milan via Addis Ababa.
Subsequently, a Real Estate CEO, Kolapo Oladapo Raji, Chairman of Trans Fortress Global Resources, was also arrested by NDLEA operatives for alleged involvement in drug trafficking.
NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, commended the officers for their efforts in curbing drug trafficking.
NDLEA busts woman with drugs in fake pregnancy.
Eben Enasco Reporting.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have foiled an attempt by a Kano-based businesswoman, 35-year-old Rabi Muhammad, to move consignments of cocaine and opioids hidden in a fake baby bump through the Seme land border in Lagos.
Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said she was intercepted by NDLEA officers at the departure tarmac of Seme land border with a protruding tummy on Monday while attempting to cross to Cotonou in the Benin Republic.
He said a full body search, however, revealed her pregnancy was fake, and her baby bump was designed with a pink coloured calabash used to conceal 3,200 capsules of tramadol, which she tied around her stomach and was taking to Cotonou to sell.
Babafemi said the same day in Kano, NDLEA operatives at the screening point of the departure hall of the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, intercepted a 41-year-old Ivorian, Michael Gohouri (also known as Anunwa Onyinye Michael), during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET940 to Milan, Malpensa via Addis Ababa.
According to the statement, when he was taken for a body scan, the result confirmed ingestion of illicit substances.
Babafemi said as a result, he was placed under observation during which he excreted 82 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.49 kilograms.
He said Michael Gohouri had arrived in Lagos from Milan on 17th January, 2026, and was shuttling from Lagos to Enugu for three weeks.
Babafemi also said the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Trans Fortress Global Resources, a notable real estate development firm, Mr. Kolapo Oladapo Raji, has been arrested by NDLEA operatives.