NDLEA raids Lagos drug party, arrests Pretty Mike, others

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested more than 100 suspects, including popular Lagos socialite and club owner, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, better known as Pretty Mike, during a midnight raid on a nightclub in Victoria Island, Lagos.

The operation, which took place in the early hours of Sunday, October 26, targeted Proxy Night Club, located at 7 Akin Adesola Street, where a suspected drug party was reportedly in full swing.

According to NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the agency’s operatives recovered cartons of illicit substances from both the party venue and the club’s storage area. The seized items included Loud (a strain of cannabis), laughing gas, and other narcotics.

He further explained that the raid followed intelligence about the drug party, and NDLEA operatives who were embedded in the party between 11pm on Saturday October 25, however, disrupted the gathering at 3am on Sunday, October 26, based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Also, NDLEA’s operatives have uncovered UK-bound cocaine in cream containers and meth in water heater.

A total of 70 parcels of cocaine factory-packed in walls of cocoa butter formula body cream containers heading to London, United Kingdom, have been uncovered at the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, with three suspects arrested in series of follow-up operations across Lagos.

The cocaine consignments weighing 3.60 kilograms were discovered on October 14, 2025 during examination of cargoes packaged as personal effects going to London, UK on an Air Peace flight. A cargo agent Lawal Mustapha Olakunle who presented the consignment for airfreight was promptly arrested while investigations stretching into two weeks led to the arrest of two principal suspects linked to the attempt to export the concealed Class A drug to the UK.

The NDLEA said in a follow-up operation on October 18, a female healthcare worker Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah was arrested following which Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, the chief executive officer of a travel agency, Mutiu Adebiyi & Co, was arrested at his 23 Ladoke Akintola Street, Ikeja GRA Lagos office on Monday, October 20.

In a similar development, attempt by a 35-year-old Lesotho national Lemena Mark to export 103.59 grams of methamphetamine concealed in a diabeta herbs coffee tea pack to the Philippines on an Ethiopian airlines flight from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA) Enugu on Wednesday, October 22, was thwarted by NDLEA officers who arrested him and recovered the illicit drug.

No fewer than 21,950 capsules of tramadol 250mg concealed inside a 100-litre water heater were recovered from a suspect Umar Abubakar, 40, who was arrested by NDLEA operatives at Bode Saadu, Morro local government area of Kwara state following credible intelligence on Tuesday, October 21.