The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a woman on TB Joshua’s T-shirt for allegedly attempting to smuggle 1.15 kilogrammes of cocaine from Nigeria to Uganda.
The substances were discovered hidden in her private part.
The woman, 34-year-old Ugandan woman, identified as Farida Nansubuga, had on, a T-shirt with the picture of the late prominent Nigerian pastor, had allegedly attended a programme at his Synagogue Church of All Nations.
She was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, November 3, while preparing to board a flight to Uganda.
According to a statement by NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, the suspect arrived in Nigeria on October 29 with members of her church for a prayer session at the Synagogue Church of All Nations in the Ikotun-Egbe area of Lagos State.
“She came to Nigeria with members of her church for spiritual renewal at a prayer session in Lagos.
“But when it was time to go home, 34-year-old Ugandan, Ms Farida Nansubuga, chose a different path. While the rest of her delegation flew back to Uganda, she stayed behind, not to pray some more, but to pick up a consignment of cocaine, which she hid in her private part in a bid to smuggle it into her country.
“Her plan, however, came crashing down at the MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, 3rd November 2026, when operatives of the NDLEA intercepted her at the screening point of Terminal 2 during a joint passenger screening exercise with aviation security personnel.
“She was due to board a Ugandan airline flight to her home country,” the statement read with Babafemi saying a preliminary investigation saying that a contact in Nigeria arranged a vehicle to convey her to a hotel on the morning of her scheduled departure, where an unidentified man handed her the drugs.
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During preliminary interview, the suspect said she arrived in Nigeria on 29th October 2026 with members of her church for a prayer session at The Synagogue Church of All Nations, Ikotun Egbe area of Lagos.
“She claimed that after the prayer session, the other members of her delegation returned to Uganda while she stayed back to collect the illicit consignment on behalf of a friend, simply identified as Joy, who resides in Uganda.”
According to her, Joy directed her to a contact in Nigeria who arranged a vehicle to bring her to a hotel on the morning of her scheduled departure.
It was there, she said, that the man handed her the drug and instructed her to hide it beneath her clothing to beat security screening at the airport. She claimed no definite fee was agreed for the trip, but that she expected to be paid not less than US$1,000 on successful delivery.
In another interception at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives on Friday 6th November uncovered 750,000 tablets of Tapentadol 250mg, weighing 526 kilograms with a street value of N900 million, in a consignment from India declared as Paracetamol Tablets 500mg.
The consignment, made up of eleven cartons packed in two wooden structures, arrived at the import shed of the airport on Tuesday 3rd November aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Ahmedabad, India.
Suspicious of the declaration, NDLEA officers placed the cargo under surveillance until a joint examination with officers of the Nigeria Customs Service and other sister agencies on Friday.
The opioid pills were allegedly found in ten of the eleven cartons, while only the last carton contained paracetamol tablets as cover.
Also at the import shed of the airport, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday 4th November intercepted 32 parcels of Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 16.15 kilograms, concealed inside two wooden sofas in a consolidated cargo that arrived from Houston, Texas, United States aboard a Turkish Airlines flight
. A freight agent, Ibrahim Abdulwaheed Adewale, who came forward to clear the consignment was taken into custody, the agency stated.
