NDLEA Arrests Businessmen, Canada Based Nurse At Lagos Airport, Seize 400g of Cocaine, 35kg of Cannabis

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two businessmen: Ihejirika Okechukwu and Iwuagwu Ikedi as well as a Canada-based nurse Usman Olami, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos for attempting to import and export cocaine pellets and parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis through the airport.

A statement by the spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi on Sunday said Ihejirika who have been a frequent visitor to Thailand from where he claims to be importing fish into Nigeria was arrested last Tuesday while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Thailand via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.