The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended a 38-year-old South African lady, Will Jessica Ann, after she was found to have concealed 14 large blocks of heroin weighing 5.75 kilograms in her luggage.
Naijaonpoint understands that she used her three-year-old son as cover to bypass security checks and evade thorough screening.
According to a statement by the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the suspect was arrested by NDLEA officers on Monday, 6th July 2026, during the inward clearance of passengers on Qatar Airways flight QR 1433 from Doha to Abuja.
Though she initially denied travelling with check-in bags, after operatives quickly established that the two bags containing the drugs had tags that matched the claim tags attached to her passport, she recounted and admitted ownership of the bags, adding that she had forgotten she had checked in the two bags.
She claimed to have travelled from Cambodia through Doha to Abuja. Intelligence leading to her arrests indicates she is a member of a transnational drug trafficking organisation along with her husband/partner, Jan Coenraad De Jager, based in Cambodia, from where they operate their drug network along the Cambodian-South African axis.
In another successful interdiction operation, NDLEA officers at the Terminal 2 arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, on 28th June 2026, intercepted a commercial motorcycle operator popularly known as ‘Okada rider’, 48-year-old Onyechere Daniel Chinadu, following his arrival from Madagascar via Addis Ababa aboard an Ethiopian Airways flight.
A thorough search of his backpack, which he had checked in, led to the discovery of 87 wraps of methamphetamine concealed within the clothes in his bag. In his statement, Onyechere claimed he has been working for 15 years as an Okada rider at the Oke-Afo area of Lagos before his Uganda-based friend recruited him into drug trafficking.
He said he ingested the recovered pellets of methamphetamine in Uganda before embarking on his planned journey to Madagascar to deliver the drug consignment. He, however, said that upon arrival in Madagascar, he was denied entry by the Immigration authorities. As a result, his friend and sponsor, Ozor Igo, based in Uganda, rerouted his flight to Lagos, where he was eventually arrested by NDLEA officers.
The suspect was unable to state the exact number of pellets he had ingested in Uganda and as a result, he was placed under excretion observation for a period of three days. Between the date of his arrest and 1st of July, he was able to excrete 13 pellets in addition to the initial 87 wraps recovered from him, bringing the total number to 100 wraps of methamphetamine with a gross weight of 1.715 kilograms.
At the Apapa seaport in Lagos, a total of 8,287 nylon bags of Canadian Loud, weighing 4,143.5 kilograms and worth over N10.3 billion in street value, were discovered in a container imported from Canada during a joint examination of the shipment by NDLEA officers, Customs personnel, and other security agencies on Friday, 10th July 2026.
The discovery followed weeks of targeted tracking and monitoring of the shipment since its departure from Montreal, Canada, by operatives of the Maritime Intelligence Unit of NDLEA in close collaboration with the Apapa Strategic Command of the Agency. Meanwhile, an attempt to export a 2.5kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, concealed in a gas compressor going to Cyprus through a courier company in Lagos has been thwarted by NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation(DOGI).
With the same zeal, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities, among others, in the past week. These include: WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of Nnodo Secondary School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi; Government Girls Secondary School, Sabon Gida, Sharada, Kano; Royal Jesuit College, Agbado Ekiti; and Community Secondary School, Idofa, Ogun, while the leadership of Zone 14 Command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy visit to Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara at Government House, Port Harcourt, among others.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, MMIA, NAIA, MIU, and Apapa Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) noted their drug supply reduction efforts balanced with WADA sensitisation activities, while he charged them and their compatriots across the country not to rest on their past laurels.
