NDLEA arrests Lagos distributors for using Christmas cookies hide drugs

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered and dismantled a social media network used to distribute illicit substances packaged as imported Christmas cookies and snacks. Two masterminds were arrested after a raid on their hideout in the Lekki area of Lagos.

The drug syndicate, run by Deji Adesanya and Olubiyi Majekodunmi, had imported consignments of Canadian Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, and distributed it in colourful designer sachets bearing pictures and labels of cookies and snacks to disguise retail quantities of the psychoactive substance.

Following intelligence about the group’s operations—distributed primarily through a WhatsApp platform—NDLEA operatives raided their apartment on Ojulari Street, Ikate, Lekki, on Saturday, 22 November 2025, recovering large quantities of designer sachets and 5kg of Loud at the point of arrest.

In another Lagos operation, NDLEA officers arrested a 38-year-old drug kingpin, Philip Ucheka, on Thursday, 27 November, as he took delivery of 110 pouches of Canadian Loud (55.6kg) at Ladipo, Mushin. Three delivery vehicles were also seized.

At a Lagos courier company, 100 grams of Loud concealed in a teddy bear imported from Thailand were intercepted on Thursday, 27 November, while 548 capsules of tramadol hidden in bottles of Vitamin C and Magnesium bound for the UK were found the following day, Friday 28 November, at another logistics firm.

Text except headline courtesy of Daily Sun