The National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 44-year-old businessman, Ezemokwe Chukwuebuka Christian, at the Port Harcourt International Airport for ingesting 53 wraps of cocaine.
The suspect was attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Tehran Khomeini in Iran via Doha when he was intercepted on June 7, 2025.
After a body scan revealed positive signs of ingestion, he was placed under observation and expelled 53 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.172kg in six separate excretions.
The suspect confessed to having been involved in the illicit trade for two years, frequently traveling between West Africa and Iran.
This arrest comes barely two weeks after another businessman, Chinedu Leonard Okigbo, 60, was caught with 65 pellets of cocaine in his stomach at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, also bound for Iran.
In a separate incident, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos intercepted an Italy-bound passenger, Edobor Ambrose Ali, with 14,410 tramadol pills concealed in his luggage.
Ali claimed he was hired to courier the drugs from Nigeria to Milan, Italy, for €2,000.
