NDLEA intercepts N6.2bn worth of ‘Jihadi drug’ in Ghana soap at Lagos airport

…As traffickers abandon N4.6b worth of drugs at Lagos airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said it has intercepted consignments of captagon, widely known as ‘Jihadi drug’ and millions of opioid pills worth over N6.2 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos.

Femi Babafemi, NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, said the captagon shipment was seized at the Lagos airport on Saturday 22nd August 2026 following the arrest of a 49-year-old cross-border kingpin Akinbile Kazeem Aikins, who arrived from Accra Ghana aboard an African World Airlines flight.

The NDLEA revealed that a search of his carton of local bathing soap, popularly called “Ghana Soap,” led to the recovery of 47,200 pills of the illicit amphetamine drug worth over N1.5 billion concealed within blocks of soap.

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The deadly drugs, Captagon, which is also notoriously dubbed the ‘Jihadi drug’ for its use in funding extremist activities in conflict zones, was first intercepted in Nigeria by NDLEA in September 2021 at the Apapa port in Lagos.

Akinbile in his confessional statement, claimed that he was meant to deliver the consignment in the North.

The anti- narcotics agency also intercepted no fewer than 3,900,030 tablets of Tramaking 225mg and Tapentadol 250mg, with a combined gross weight of 2,787.40 kilograms and more than N4.6 billion in street value, at the Lagos port

The drugs were recovered from four abandoned consignments at the import shed of the MMIA.

The agency revealed that three of the consignments, comprising 900,000 tablets of…