{"id":74025,"date":"2025-08-24T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74025"},"modified":"2025-08-24T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:50:47","slug":"ndlea-arrests-widow-with-1-3kg-cocaine-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/24\/ndlea-arrests-widow-with-1-3kg-cocaine-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA Arrests Widow with 1.3kg Cocaine in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested a 50-year-old widow, Ifeoma Ezewuike, for allegedly attempting to traffic 1.3 kilograms of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, proprietor of Golden Star Creation, a fashion store on Ago Palace Way, Okota, was intercepted on Friday, August 22, 2025, at a bus terminal in Jibowu, Yaba, Lagos, while trying to deliver the drug to clients in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>According to NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, Ezewuike concealed the substance by faking a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>A search of her residence in the Ago Palace area led to the recovery of 200 grams of a cutting agent used in producing a particular type of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Ezewuike reportedly confessed that she inherited the illicit trade from her late husband, who died two years ago, despite having operated her fashion business for two decades.<\/p>\n<p>In a related operation, officers from the NDLEA Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI), intercepted a shipment of 48.6 kilograms of cannabis, popularly known as \u201cloud,\u201d at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday, August 19.<\/p>\n<p>The consignment, smuggled in three cartons of kitchen sinks, was traced to the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested a 50-year-old widow, Ifeoma Ezewuike, for allegedly attempting to traffic 1.3 kilograms of cocaine. The suspect, proprietor of Golden Star Creation, a fashion store on Ago Palace Way, Okota, was intercepted on Friday, August 22, 2025, at a bus terminal in Jibowu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74027,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74025\/revisions\/74027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}