Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended a 41-year-old alleged ex-convict and Malaysian returnee, Ndubuisi Udatu (alias Richard), for concealing four large parcels of methamphetamine weighing 2.7 kilograms inside two giant music speakers.
The drugs were reportedly intended for distribution in Yola and Mubi, Adamawa State, as well as across the border into Cameroon.
The arrest was disclosed in a statement issued by the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, and made available to Channels Television on Sunday.
According to the statement, Ndubuisi was arrested on Monday, April 7, 2025, while traveling in a commercial bus intercepted at an NDLEA checkpoint in Namtari, along the Ngurore-Yola Road in Adamawa. The officers discovered the methamphetamine hidden in two new music speakers, along with a cash exhibit of ₦22,300.
In his confession, Ndubuisi admitted to resuming his illicit drug trade in Nigeria after completing a prison sentence in Malaysia, where he was convicted and jailed for drug trafficking offenses.
In a separate operation, NDLEA, in collaboration with Customs personnel, conducted a joint border raid at the Nigeria-Cameroon border in Mfum, Cross River State. During the operation, a 35-year-old trans-border drug trafficker, Odoh Peter Ikechukwu, was arrested with 8,740 ampoules of assorted opioids weighing 395 kilograms.
“They include: 1,080 ampoules of fentanyl injection, 2,160 ampoules of morphine sulphate injection, 3,010 ampoules of phenobarbital sulphate injection, 2,160 ampoules of pethidine injection, and 330 ampoules of midazolam injection.
“In Kano, NDLEA operatives on Friday 11th April 2025 arrested 27-year-old Aliyu Ibrahim with 20 ATM cards and 25,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and 250mg at Bachirawa area of Kano, while 48-year-old Gambo Lawan was nabbed in a follow up operation at Wazobia motor park, Gwagwalada FCT Abuja following the seizure of a consignment of 8,960 pills of tramadol by NDLEA officers on routine check along Gwagwalada expressway on Monday 7th April.
“Not less than 124 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, packaged in 11 jumbo bags were on Friday 11th April recovered from the boot of a Lexus car marked KTU 54 CU driven by a suspect, Ademiluyi Adedapo Collins, 58, along Mokwa-Jebba road, Niger state,” the statement added.