|By Adejumo Adekunle
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Sunday, October 26, 2025, stormed Proxy Night Club on Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, disrupting an ongoing drug party and arresting over 100 suspects, including controversial socialite and club owner, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, popularly known as Pretty Mike.
The midnight raid, triggered by actionable intelligence, saw officers embedded at the party from 11:00 p.m. before executing a tactical shutdown at about 3:00 a.m. Cartons of Loud and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) were recovered from the club’s store and guests.
In a separate operation at Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport, NDLEA officers uncovered 70 parcels of cocaine — weighing 3.60kg — concealed in cocoa butter body cream headed for London on an Air Peace flight. The cargo agent, Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, was arrested immediately, while follow-up operations led to the arrests of Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah and Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, CEO of Mutiu Adebiyi & Co travel agency.
At Enugu Airport, a 35-year-old Lesotho national, Lemena Mark, was intercepted while attempting to smuggle 103.59 grams of methamphetamine disguised in diabetic herbal tea to the Philippines. Similarly, in Kwara State, officers seized 21,950 capsules of tramadol hidden inside a 100-litre water heater and arrested one Umar Abubakar.
In Taraba, a truck conveying building materials was intercepted at Dan-Anacha checkpoint with 450,000 pills of tramadol and exol-5, leading to the arrest of two suspects. NDLEA units in Kogi, Nasarawa, Ondo, Kaduna, and at the Seme border also intercepted large quantities of skunk, skuchies and other psychoactive substances.
Notably, a Lekki-based female major distributor identified as Oyonumoh Glory Effiong was arrested with high-grade Canadian and California Loud supplied to elite Lagos districts, while a 75-year-old grandfather and a 60-year-old grandmother were arrested in Abia State with quantities of cannabis in their possession.
NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd.), reaffirmed that the agency’s intensified nationwide offensive will continue to target both elite party zones and rural trafficking networks.
