The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recorded a series of major drug busts across Nigeria, with the most dramatic being the arrest of a 63-year-old Chinese grandma at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
The suspect, Ting Hung Kiong, a Chinese national naturalised in Malaysia, was arrested on Sunday, May 17, 2026, upon arrival at the Lagos airport from Thailand via Dubai aboard an Emirates Airline flight, with two large travel boxes containing 31 kilograms of Canadian Loud — a high-value synthetic strain of cannabis.
During interrogation, the suspect told investigators that she works as a caregiver in Malaysia and that her daughter sponsored her trip from Malaysia to Thailand, where she spent two weeks before being handed the drug consignment at a Thailand airport for delivery in Nigeria.
In a separate but equally significant operation, following close monitoring by NDLEA operatives since its arrival from India aboard an Emirates Cargo flight, 29 large cartons containing 1,825,710 tablets of Tapentadol 250mg worth ₦2,190,852,000 were eventually handed over to the NDLEA by the Customs Service on Friday, May 22, 2026.
NDLEA operatives also intercepted drug parcels at a courier company in Lagos destined for Europe and the United States, including 1,174 pills of MDMA (Ecstasy) hidden in a bicycle luggage carrier heading to the Netherlands, 66 Tramadol pills concealed in soap going to the US, and 18 Tramadol tablets hidden in body cream bound for the UK.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi noted the drug shipment reflects a continuing pattern of trafficking of high-value cannabis variants into Nigeria, particularly the “Canadian Loud” strain, which has featured in several recent large-scale seizures across Lagos.
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