Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced the arrest of two alleged drug kingpins, identified as Victor Nwosa and Felix Chika Obiegbu, in Lagos, seizing large consignments of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine meant for export to Europe.
NDLEA, in a statement issued on Sunday by its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said the suspects were arrested by its operatives attached to the Special Operations Unit (SOU) after months of intelligence gathering and surveillance on their criminal networks.
According to the statement, “while 64-year-old Nwosa parades himself as a successful textile merchant, 49-year-old Obiegbu is known to many as a businessman who is into wine distribution but beneath their outward appearance is their hidden illicit drug business unearthed by NDLEA operatives after months of intelligence gathering on the two syndicates led by them.”
The statement added, “At the time they were preparing their consignments for export, NDLEA-SOU operatives who had for months put them under surveillance, swooped on them in different parts of Lagos.
“Nwosa was arrested on Wednesday, 17th September 2025, at his 16 Femi Kila Street, Okota home, where 4.33 kilograms of heroin and 448 grams of cocaine were recovered during a search of his house.”
“In his case, Obiegbu was arrested on Thursday, 11th September at his 5 Shada Shonefun Street, Aguda Surulere home, where in the course of a search, 2.902 kilograms of methamphetamine were uncovered and seized,” NDLEA’s spokesman said.
Also, no fewer than 85,100 tramadol and other opioid pills were seized from three suspects identified as Dauda Abubakar, Abdullahi Umar, and Ismaila Muhammed, by NDLEA operatives in the Apapa area of Lagos on Monday, September 22.
The following day, Tuesday, September 23, NDLEA operatives in Abuja arrested 40-year-old Opeyemi Ogundipe along the Abaji–Gwagwalada Expressway, recovering 2.1 kilograms of Colorado.
Meanwhile, NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd.), has commended the operatives for their efforts, stating that the success of these operations underscores the agency’s commitment to safeguarding Nigeria from illicit substances that threaten public health and national security.
