Metro

NDLEA Intercepts Indian Lady With 72 Parcels Of Heroin ON n Chocolate Wraps

Published

10 months ago

March 23, 2025

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA said on Sunday that its operatives intercepted a 42-year-old Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu, at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano, with 72 parcels of heroin factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said, “The class A drug consignment weighing a total of 11 kilograms was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search.”

He said this “followed processed credible intelligence during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand, via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano airport on Friday, March 14th, 2025.

“The arrest of Neetu signifies a growing attempt by drug trafficking organisations to hire white ladies and foreign nationals to move illicit drugs through the Nigerian borders.”

Babafemi said that hiring foreigners by cartels to smuggle Illicit drugs is a bid that vigilant NDLEA operatives have consistently frustrated with the aid of modern technological tools and proactive intelligence, as laid out by Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd).

In another interdiction operation in Kano, NDLEA officers on Thursday, March 20th, arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Michael Ogundele, with a 50-litre steel gas cylinder at Gadar Tamburawa, along Zaria- Kano road.

Based on credible intelligence, welding tools were later used to cut the giant cylinder, after which 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg concealed in it were extracted.

Sunday Ogar, 40, was nabbed at the Gunduwawa area of Kano on Wednesday, March 19th, with a 27kg skunk, a strain of cannabis.

A female suspect, Khadijah Abdullahi, 40, was arrested with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup at the Lungun Bulala Yalwa area of the state on Tuesday, March 18th.

In Lagos, the duo of Olumuyiwa Kolawole and Samod Adisa were nabbed with 67.5kg skunk in Mushin, just as 100.8kg of the same psychoactive substance was recovered from the store of two fleeing suspects in the Anifowoshe area.

Isah Idris was arrested in Apapa with a 4.5kg skunk, 600 grams of tramadol 225mg, and 30 liters of codeine syrup on Tuesday, March 18th.

Another suspect, Yahaya Mohamed, was arrested the same day in the Ikotun area of the state with different quantities of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

Across the country, NDLEA Commands and formations continued to intensify their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) social advocacy sensitization engagements in schools, markets, motor parts, workplaces and worship centres in the past week.

These include: WADA sensitization lecture to students and staff of Chrisland School, Ikeja, Lagos; Hakimi Secondary School, Mokwa, Niger state; Marist Comprehensive College, Nteje, Anambra state; Ikole City College, Ikole Ekiti, Ekiti state; Government Day Secondary School, Sunane, Sokoto state; and Government Day Secondary School, Jada, Adamawa state, among others.

Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) commended the officers and men of MAKIA, Lagos, and Kano Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures.

He noted with satisfaction the balance in drug supply and demand reduction efforts of all the formations nationwide, even as he charged them not to relent.

Metro

Bishop Drags Wife To Court For Stabbing Him, Pulling His Manhood

Published

1 hour ago

January 10, 2026

Editor

A Bishop of a known church in Lusaka’s John Laing, Zambia, has taken his wife to court after she allegedly stabbed him in the hands and head with a knife, and also pulled his manhood.

Bishop Maxwell Mwanza, 39, claimed that his wife, Cynthia Bwalya, 32, who is charged with unlawful wounding, assaulted him on November 17, 2025.

According to Zambia Observer, when the case came up before Lusaka magistrate, Kawama Mwamfuli, the accused, who appeared calm, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The matter was adjourned until January 22, 2026.

At the time the case was being reported to the police, Maxwell told investigators that on that material day, he had a difference with his spouse.

The victim said when he went to bed the same night, his wife joined him and that later around 02:00 hours, she started talking on phone with a man.

Maxwell heard her asking the man to escort her to a place called Nalusanga, where she planned to get some cattle.

He said in rage, he grabbed the mobile phone from his partner, whom he questioned for phoning another man, especially in his presence and in his house.

In response, Cynthia is alleged to have told her husband that he was “very foolish, let me show you”.

She was alleged to have picked a broomstick and tried to hit her spouse but he blocked her, before she removed the keys to the locked bedroom and opened it.

Cynthia returned to where her husband was with a knife and locked the room, before stabbing him in the hands and head.

Maxwell told the police that when he tried to escape, his wife struck him in the back, before he could flee, after picking the keys to the locked door, which had dropped from her hands.

The victim then locked his wife inside the bedroom and reported the matter to the police.

Cynthia was also accused of pulling Maxwell’s genitals.

The gender-based violence case comes barely a fortnight after a woman from Lusaka was jailed for six months for pouring hot water on her husband after an altercation.

Metro

Man Divorces Wife Because She Is Too Beautiful

Published

1 hour ago

January 10, 2026

Editor

A Zimbabwean man, Arnold Masuka, forty-year-old, has told the court he was no longer interested in his wife, Hilda Mleya(30) because she is too beautiful.

Arnold made this claim before the judge, Henry Chizvidzo.

According to Zimbabwean Live, Arnold was divorcing his wife because of her beauty which was giving him sleepless nights.

The situation got so bad that he was afraid of going to work or leaving her alone as he feared she would be snatched by other men.

The judge said it was his first time of handling such a case.

Arnold reportedly decided to use the court to separate with his wife after realising that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in Gokwe, Zimbabwe.

Speaking in Shona, he told the court his wife smiled all the time and he feared this might draw attention from other men.

Ruling on the matter, Henry Chizvidzo, requested the two families which the couple belong to, to settle the issue with the couple.

Metro

Wife Divorces Husband Due To Lack Of Money

Published

1 hour ago

January 10, 2026

Editor

An Area Court at Centre-Igboro in Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the marriage between a man, Toyin Ajibola, and his wife, Bashirat Mohammed, on the grounds of lack of money.

The presiding judge, Hammad Ajumonbi, while delivering ruling, said that even though Toyin did not want to release his wife, she still needed to move so as not to be stranded.

He, therefore, dissolved their union and granted custody of the three children produced by their marriage to the wife.

The court also ordered the woman to observe the three-month iddah (waiting) period before contracting another marriage.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ajumonbi ordered Toyin to be responsible for the feeding of their children.

“He should have unrestricted access to the children and the mother should always make the children available any time their father requested,” the judge said.

Earlier, Bashirat had applied for divorce saying she was tired of their marriage due to lack of money and her husband’s irresponsibility.

“I want the court to grant me divorce so that I can have rest of mind,” she said.

The husband, however, told the court that he was still interested in his wife even though he was financially handicapped.

“I have been trying hard to get money to feed my family, but couldn’t.

“It is so painful that I can’t get money to visit her and the children when they left home,” he said.