The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has said its operatives have intercepted parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis concealed in microwaves imported from Thailand, and wraps of cocaine built into ladies’ lipsticks going to Guinea at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.

NDLEA stated that the Loud consignment was part of a consolidated cargo that came in two tranches on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Bangkok, Thailand, through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This was announced on Sunday in a statement by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja.

Babafemi disclosed that the cargo was subjected to a thorough search during which 23 parcels of Loud weighing 11.3kg, concealed in new microwaves, were recovered on Monday 7th July 2025, adding that a suspect, Ezenwegbu Chike, has been arrested in connection with the seizure.

Babafemi also, in the statement, announced that NDLEA operatives at the export shed of the Lagos airport have intercepted another consignment of cocaine built into ladies’ lipsticks as part of a cargo containing hair attachments, face powder, and other items heading to Malabo, Guinea, barely a week after a total of 420 grams of cocaine factory fitted in 84 pieces of female lipsticks heading to the UK were seized at a courier company in Lagos.

According to the statement, no less than 400 grams of cocaine and phenacetine, a cutting agent, were recovered from the lipsticks when dismantled, while a businessman at the Trade Fair Complex, Ojo area of Lagos, Ezeikwelume Prince Afam, was arrested on Friday 11th July in connection with the seizure.

Meanwhile, a notorious drug kingpin, Okechukwu Izugha (a.k.a. Okey Omeogo), has been arrested in Lagos by operatives of a Special Operations Unit of NDLEA after 12 months of going into hiding. He was nabbed on Wednesday 9th July at his wife’s shop in Ijesha Market.

Izugha came under NDLEA radar on 7th August 2024 after 9kg of cocaine was recovered from a suspect, Obiora Joseph Agudosi, at a motor park in Orile, Lagos, while going to deliver the consignment in the southeast. Izugha was identified as the owner of the seized drug.