China-based bizman, 2 Angolans excrete 236 cocaine pellets at Kano airport 

Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) have arrested a China-based businessman and two Angola nationals, who excreted 236 wraps of cocaine after testing constructive for ingesting illicit medicine on the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Airport and Mallam Aminu Kano Worldwide Airport.

This was contained in a assertion weekend by the director of Public Affairs, Femi Babafemi, who acknowledged that the 34-year-old suspect, Ibeanu Vincent Chukwudulue, was arrested on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, whereas making an attempt to board a Qatar Airways flight from Kano to China through Abuja and Doha. Performing on credible intelligence, NDLEA officers on the Abuja airport ordered that he be de boarded for a physique scan, which confirmed he had ingested illicit medicine.

He was positioned below remark and subsequently excreted 52 pellets of cocaine weighing 735.95 grams. The suspect mentioned in his assertion that he was into enterprise on Lagos Island earlier than relocating to Guangzhou, China in 2024.

On the identical day, two Angolan nationals, Mbandu Martins Makiadi, 50, and Ngoma Wilson Fernando, 52, have been intercepted on the departure corridor of the Kano airport whereas present process clearance for an Ethiopian Airways flight to Istanbul, Turkey through Addis Ababa. Physique scans confirmed that they had ingested medicine.