{"id":237201,"date":"2026-06-23T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndlea-begins-trial-of-billionaire-two-others-over-alleged-322kg-tramadol-possession\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:45:15","slug":"nigeria-ndlea-begins-trial-of-billionaire-two-others-over-alleged-322kg-tramadol-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndlea-begins-trial-of-billionaire-two-others-over-alleged-322kg-tramadol-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: NDLEA Begins Trial of Billionaire, Two Others Over Alleged 322kg Tramadol Possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has commenced the trial of billionaire businessman, Chief Ukatu Afamefuna Mallinson, alongside two associates, Pius Enidom and Sunday Ifeanyi Ibekwute, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over allegations of conspiracy, unlawful possession and trafficking in 322 kilograms of Tramadol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The trial commenced before Justice Yellim Bogoro, who took over the case following the transfer of the former trial judge, Justice Peter Lifu, to the Abuja Division&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606230637.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>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has commenced the trial of billionaire businessman, Chief Ukatu Afamefuna Mallinson, alongside two associates, Pius Enidom and Sunday Ifeanyi Ibekwute, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over allegations of conspiracy, unlawful possession and trafficking in 322 kilograms of Tramadol. The trial commenced before Justice Yellim Bogoro, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237202,"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":[54684,258,256,4305,8082,13602,9859,257,4687,393,14669,254,14660,6564],"class_list":["post-237201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-322kg","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-begins","tag-billionaire","tag-ndlea","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-possession","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tramadol","tag-trial"],"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\/237201","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=237201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}