Shock as NDLEA Nabs Non-Muslim Woman Disguised in Hijab with Cocaine Hidden in Private Parts Amid Sweeping Drug Raids Nationwide

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a woman, Ihensekhien Obehi, at the Port Harcourt International Airport for attempting to smuggle cocaine to Iran using a highly unusual concealment method.

According to a statement released by NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi, Obehi was apprehended on Sunday, 3rd May 2025, while boarding a Qatar Airways flight to Iran via Doha.

Babafemi revealed that “during her search, she was found to have inserted three wraps of cocaine into her private part, with two large parcels hidden in false compartments of her handbag, while she had also swallowed 67 pellets of the Class A drug.”

Obehi, disguised in a hijab, was placed under excretion observation and later expelled all 67 swallowed wraps. She confessed she intended to ingest 70 pellets but could not continue after 67 and chose to insert the remaining three. The total cocaine seized weighed 2.523 kilograms.

In a separate operation at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Friday, 9th May, NDLEA operatives arrested 22-year-old British national Campbell Slifer with two suitcases containing 35 parcels of Loud, a potent cannabis strain, weighing 37.6kg. Slifer, previously convicted in the UK for drug trafficking and robbery, claimed he was recruited in London to collect the drugs in Thailand for delivery in Nigeria.

Further seizures were reported across the country, including a fuel tanker and three vehicles in Niger State transporting 246 bags of skunk (3,047kg), a 505kg skunk haul in Bauchi, and 775 litres of codeine syrup recovered during a Kano raid.

NDLEA reaffirmed its commitment to dismantling drug trafficking networks nationwide.