Brazil returnee Ofoma Sunday excretes 111 wraps of heroin after NDLEA arrest at Lagos airport 

The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has arrested 46-year-old Ofoma Sunday, a Brazilian returnee, for ingesting illicit medication, which he later excreted underneath observatory custody on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

This was contained in a press release by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja.

“A complete of 111 wraps of heroin weighing 1.452 kilograms had been egested in eight excretions by Ofoma,” the assertion learn 

In keeping with the assertion, Ofoma was intercepted on Tuesday, 16 September 2025, upon his arrival from Brazil on an Ethiopian Airways flight. Investigations revealed that Ofoma left Nigeria for Brazil on 3 September 2025 to courier a heroin consignment to Lagos in change for $2,500.

Following his arrest, NDLEA operatives trailed him to Eliata Resort in Amuwo Odofin, Lagos, the place he was instructed to satisfy a handler, 55-year-old Nweke Jude Chukwudi, designated to oversee the excretion and assortment of the medication.

One other suspect, Ukachukwu Frank Ikechukwu, was arrested on Friday, 19 September, throughout inward clearance of Ethiopian Airways passengers from Brazil. He later expelled 5 wraps of cocaine weighing 145 grams.

In his assertion, Ukachukwu admitted he bought 9 wraps of cocaine in Brazil and inserted them into his anus, a course of that took two hours. He revealed that whereas transiting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he skilled extreme anal ache and eliminated some wraps. He was solely capable of reinsert seven, flushing two down a rest room.

He added that on his flight to Nigeria, he expelled two extra wraps mid-air, leaving him with solely 5 upon arrival. Ukachukwu, who had beforehand lived in the USA earlier than being deported in 2022 for immigration offences, stated he had returned to Brazil in 2025 after acquiring residency.

NDLEA operatives arrested Okolonkwo Ebere Theresa at MMIA Terminal 2 on Sunday, 14 September. She tried to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha whereas concealing 1.40 kilograms of methamphetamine in her butt pad underwear.

Throughout interrogation, she disclosed that she runs a second-hand clothes commerce and a POS enterprise in Enugu however was recruited into drug trafficking.

NDLEA operatives additionally intercepted different drug shipments:

The NDLEA additionally recorded seizures throughout a number of states:

NDLEA Chairman and Chief Government Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd.) recommended operatives for the operations.

“These arrests and seizures symbolize a major milestone in our decided effort to dismantle drug trafficking organizations working in Nigeria and around the globe, prioritizing these bent on focusing on our productive youth inhabitants with illicit substances till they’re now not capable of inflict hurt on our communities or misrepresent our nation’s picture within the international house,” Marwa stated. 

He urged NDLEA officers nationwide to maintain their balanced strategy to the drug management efforts of the Company.