The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted consignments of Captagon, widely known as the ‘Jihadi drug’, and millions of opioid pills worth over N6.2 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
According to a statement by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, the Captagon shipment was seized at the Lagos airport on Saturday, August 22, 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.
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.