Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended an Indian national, Gupta Kumar, alongside three Nigerian collaborators, over trafficking multi-billion drugs into Nigeria.
The anti-drug agency intercepted the large consignment of tramadol valued at nearly ₦4 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
In a post shared on Sunday, NDLEA note that the consignment, which comprised 2,248,000 tablets of tramadol 200mg and 225mg, was disguised as cartons of multi-vitamins and shipped in from Delhi, India.
It arrived on an Ethiopian Airlines flight on Monday, 8th September 2025 and was kept under surveillance by NDLEA operatives before action was taken.
According to the agency, two drivers and a clearing agent who attempted to move the shipment out of the airport in two trucks on Thursday, 11th September were first intercepted.
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A follow-up operation the next day led to the arrest of Kumar when he allegedly came forward to take delivery of the consignment.
In addition to the airport seizure, NDLEA teams across the country carried out a series of coordinated operations that same week.
At the departure gate of Terminal 2 of the Lagos airport, officers intercepted a passenger, Onyeganochi Ifeanyi, travelling to Doha on Sunday, 7th September.
A search of his luggage uncovered 900 grams of cannabis sativa (skunk) concealed in crayfish.
This confession reportedly facilitated the arrest of his accomplice, Ohadiegwu Uchenna, in whose hotel room additional quantities of cannabis were discovered.
Other crackdowns during the period included the recovery of 161 parcels of Canadian Loud and 1.2kg of hashish oil from a container at the Tincan Port in Lagos; the dismantling of a skuchies (cannabis drink) factory in Ikorodu with thousands of bottles seized; and arrests linked to seizures of cocaine, methamphetamine, and tramadol across Kano, Anambra, Yobe, Edo, Oyo, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory.
Chairman of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Marwa, commended the agency’s personnel across the states for their vigilance and urged them to sustain the momentum in the ongoing war against illicit drugs.
