Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested Ms. Ingrid Rosa Benevides behind 30.09 kilograms of white heroin worth over N3 billion in street value.
The 30-year-old Brazilian lady, was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja in connection with the illicit drug, concealed in factory sealed coffee packs, spokesman of the anti-narcotic Agency, Femi Babafemi made the disclosure on Sunday in a statement.
The suspect who works as a private security officer in Brazil, was arrested at the Abuja airport on Friday 23rd January 2026 upon her arrival on a Qatar Airways flight QR1431, following processed intelligence.
NDLEA said after her arrest, a search was conducted on her two checked-in bags where 21 factory-sealed packets of Brazilian coffee were found.
When the coffee bags were opened, rather than containing the beverage, what was found inside were white substances that later tested positive for heroin weighing a total of 30.09 kilograms, making it the single largest heroin seizure at the Abuja airport.
During her preliminary interview, the suspect claimed she brought the white heroin consignment under the guise of coming to Nigeria for holidays.
Also, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday 20th January intercepted two passengers: Adediran Adedoyin and Afatakpa Ochuko at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos.
The suspects who were heading to Istanbul, Turkey, aboard a Turkish Airlines flight with a total of 3,990 pills of tapentadol 250mg and tramaking 225mg, concealed in food items packed in their bags.
Meanwhile, operatives of the Marine Command of the Agency in the early hours of Thursday 22nd January intercepted a wooden boat loaded with 44 jumbo bags of Ghana Loud.
Ghana Loud is a strain of cannabis weighing 1,848 kilograms at the Jakande beach in Lekki area in Lagos State.
The shipment, according to NDLEA had barely arrived from Ghana when NDLEA officers acting on credible intelligence stormed the location around 1am, recovered the consignment and the boat.
The agency said two suspects: Aminu Ali Baba, 20, and Abdulrasheed Abubakar, 28, were on Friday 23rd January arrested by NDLEA operatives in connection with the seizure of two bags containing 140 packets of explosives heading to Kano and Kaduna.
The bags were intercepted in a commercial bus along Kaduna- Zaria highway, Zaria, while Aminu Ali Baba was arrested at Karota park in Kano and Abdulrasheed Abubakar nabbed at Mando park in Kaduna in swift follow-up operations.
An intelligence-led raid at Kwangila, Zaria LGA Kaduna on Thursday 22nd January led to the arrest of Fatima Ibrahim, 42, and Adejimoh Ismaila, 44, with 120 kilograms of skunk recovered from them.
How can a security officer do that?? It’s terrible.
Good
Brazilian lady. Why?