{"id":224784,"date":"2026-02-23T12:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndlea-smashes-drug-syndicate-arrests-real-estate-ceo-grandma-ivorian-mule\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:36:50","slug":"nigeria-ndlea-smashes-drug-syndicate-arrests-real-estate-ceo-grandma-ivorian-mule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndlea-smashes-drug-syndicate-arrests-real-estate-ceo-grandma-ivorian-mule\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: NDLEA Smashes Drug Syndicate, Arrests Real Estate CEO, Grandma, Ivorian Mule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em>Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered shocking drug trafficking schemes involving a woman who faked pregnancy to smuggle opioids and an Ivorian national who swallowed dozens of cocaine wraps, as the agency intensified coordinated raids across multiple states.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The dramatic interceptions occurred at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, and the Seme land border in Lagos, thwarting attempts to move illicit drugs to Europe and other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602230067.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered shocking drug trafficking schemes involving a woman who faked pregnancy to smuggle opioids and an Ivorian national who swallowed dozens of cocaine wraps, as the agency intensified coordinated raids across multiple states. The dramatic interceptions occurred at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7845,7213,6949,11390,53739,6800,11360,9859,257,4687,393,6884,21156,254,14519],"class_list":["post-224784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrests","tag-ceo","tag-drug","tag-estate","tag-grandma","tag-ivorian","tag-mule","tag-ndlea","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-real","tag-smashes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-syndicate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}