00:00Nigeria Authority, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has arrested Shagan George Hunkaran, an ex-international football player alongside others with cocaine when they tried to smuggle the illicit drugs into the country from Turkey.
00:16NDLEA in a news release on Sunday also said it's men that the 72-year-old grandma, Beneniz, others in raids in Delta, Kwara and Lagos states.
00:26The statement reads below, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested an ex-international football player Shagan George Hunkaran along with his businessman partner in Teruka Emanuel Shindu over attempt to smuggle a consignment of cocaine into Nigeria through the Matala Mohamed International Airport, MMIA, Akeja, Lagos.
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00:53Shindu who is a frequent fire known for conveying clothes from Turkey to Nigeria and foodstuffs from Nigeria to Turkey, was the first to be arrested upon his arrival at the Lagos Airport on Tuesday 24th June 2025.
01:07A search of his carry-on bag revealed 37 wraps of cocaine weighing 800 grams were concealed therein.
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01:17Investigation showed that the suspect was coming from Turkey on Ethiopian Airlines flight but transited through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he collected the luggage from another person before heading to Nigeria.
01:30Nigeria. Further checks revealed that an accomplice who turned out to be the former professional footballer, Shagan Hunkaran, was waiting for Shindu at the airport car park to collect the consignment from him.
01:42Hunkaran who had stayed years in Brazil playing for football clubs was promptly tracked and arrested at the car park.
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01:50In his statement, Hunkaran claimed that while playing professional football in the South American country, he had only trafficked drugs twice from Brazil to Ethiopia but has never brought any to Nigeria.
02:02Another Europe-based businessman, Armenakoro Gonstheim was on Friday 27th June arrested by NDLEA operatives at the Lagos Airport while attempting to traffic 5,000 pills of Tramadol 225mg packaged as known malaria drugs such as Lonnart, Amitem and Alictem to Spain.
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02:24He was intercepted at the departure hall of Terminal 2 of the airport during the outward clearance of passengers on Royal Air Maroc flight to Spain through Casablanca.
02:35Okoro who is into freight and logistics business between Europe and Nigeria claimed that on his arrival in Spain, he would take a train to France where he resides and from there send the Tramadol consignment to Italy for retailing.
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02:48At the Akano Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu, NDLEA operatives on Friday 27th June intercepted a Maputo, Mozambique-based bar attendant a Zenwaka chibuz or a manual.
03:04A search of his luggage led to the discovery of 17 cardboard-sized parcels of methamphetamine weighing 17.500 kg and 3 parcels of cocaine weighing 3.050 kg.
03:16The 38-year-old suspect was coming from Johannesburg, South Africa via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Ethiopian Airlines flight when he was interdicted and subjected to a search during which the illicit drugs concealed in bedsheets packed in his bags were discovered.
03:33Another passenger on board the same Ethiopian Airlines flight, 54-year-old Azu Folligan-Poder was also intercepted at the Enugu airport by NDLEA operatives.
03:46When Azu, who arrived from Sao Paulo, Brazil, was searched, a liquid-soaked plastic container marked YPE, was discovered in his luggage.
03:55The substance was promptly taken for analysis at the NDLEA Forensic and Chemical Laboratory, Enugu where the substance tested positive to cocaine.
04:06The substance which turned out to be liquid cocaine weighed 1.250 kg.
04:11The suspect, who is a toy seller in Brinquedo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, claimed he purchased the substance while shopping for his wedding ceremony.
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04:24Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives at the semi-border area of Bedagari in Lagos on Tuesday 24 June intercepted a 26-year-old Beninese Vogue Jean-Luc while trying to smuggle 69 balls of skunk, a strain of cannabis with a gross weight of 29.5 kg, from Benin Republic into Nigeria.
04:45Nigeria Food, in Kwara State, a notorious drug dealer Mary Balane Oladele, a.k.a. Ianafi, was arrested on Wednesday 25 June when NDLEA operatives raided her base in Omu Arun in Irapodon local government area where various quantities of skunk, tramadol and flunatrazapam were recovered from her.
05:07A 72-year-old grandma Mrs. Christia Jaro was on Tuesday 24 June arrested by NDLEA operatives at Niger Cat area of Wari, Delta State.
05:20Several sachets of skunk packaged in retail size were recovered from her.
05:25The war against drug abuse, WADA, social advocacy activities by NDLEA commands equally continued across the country in the past week.
05:34Some of them include, WADA sensitization lecture delivered to students and staff of Yakubawa Model Primary School, Zango, Katsina, Police Secondary School, Igbura, Oyo, Divine Favor International Group of Schools,
05:50Bende Local Government Area, Bende Local Government Area, Abia, Command Day Secondary School, Odu, Abaddon, Mata Day College, Udi, Anugu, Community Girls Secondary School, Yanagoa, Bielsa, and Fianfolu High School, Akola Akiti, among others.
06:08While commending the officers and men of MMIA, AIIA, Delta, Quara, and semi-commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week,
06:20Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Baba Mawa, retired, equally praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country
06:31for ensuring a fair balance between the drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts,
06:37Femi Baba Femi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA stated in a news release on Sunday the 29th of June 2025.
