Posted by Chinenye on Mon 09th Nov, 2026 - tori.ng
A Ugandan woman has been arrested at Lagos airport over an alleged attempt to carry illegal drugs out of Nigeria.
(Farida Nansubuga. Photo Credit: Nation News)
A 34 year old Ugandan woman, Farida Nansubuga, has been arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos for allegedly trying to smuggle 1.15 kilograms of cocaine out of Nigeria.
Officers found 87 wraps of the drug under two layers of underwear just as she was about to board a flight to Uganda.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says she arrived on October 29 to attend a prayer programme at the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos.
Her church group went home after the event, but she stayed behind to collect a package.
The drugs were reportedly arranged by a contact in Uganda.
A Nigerian helper took her to a hotel, where a man handed her the cocaine and told her to hide it under her clothes.
She was expecting at least 1,000 dollars for delivering it.
In a separate case at the same airport, agents seized 750,000 tablets of Tapentadol weighing 526 kilograms, worth about 900 million naira.
The shipment came from India and was falsely labelled as paracetamol.
When it was checked, only one carton held paracetamol.
Agents also found 32 parcels of Loud, a strong cannabis strain, hidden in wooden sofas shipped from Houston, and arrested the freight agent trying to clear them.
The agency also broke up a suspected tr@fficking syndicate that imported chemicals from the United Kingdom to make synthetic cannabis, known as Colorado.
Several more arrests followed in Lagos, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo, Delta, Taraba and Enugu states, where large amounts of cannabis, tramadol and other drugs were seized.
NDLEA chairman Brigadier General Buba Marwa praised the officers and warned that criminal gangs are using church trips and international travel to recruit drug couriers.
He urged his men to keep up the pressure and continue educating the public about drug abuse.