NDLEA Nabbed Widow with Fake Pregnancy and Real Cocaine

By: Oluwaseun Lawal

It’s not every day you hear a story like this. Friday morning, Lagos. NDLEA officers spot a woman at the Jibowu bus terminal. She looks pregnant—big belly, slow steps. But something’s off. Turns out, it’s all fake. Underneath? Not a baby. Just 1.3 kilograms of cocaine, wrapped up and ready for Abuja.

Her name’s Ifeoma Henrietta Ezewuike. Fifty years old. A widow. She runs a small fashion shop in Okota—Golden Star Creation. Been in the business for over twenty years, she says. But now, she’s in handcuffs. NDLEA says she told them the drug business was her late husband’s thing. He died two years ago, and somehow, she just kept it going. Maybe out of desperation. Maybe something else.

The story didn’t end at the bus station. Officers went to her house, searched the place. Found more—200 grams of cutting agent, the stuff they use to mix cocaine. It’s like a movie, but it’s real life. Sad, really.

And that’s just one bust. NDLEA’s been busy. In Lagos, they found almost 50 kilos of “Loud”—that’s high-grade cannabis—hidden inside kitchen sinks shipped from the US. In Adamawa, a dealer jumped the fence and ran, but his friend wasn’t so lucky. They found cars, pills, all sorts of drugs. Kano? Same story. Young guys caught with bags of pills, bottles of codeine, even more stashes in people’s homes.

Even in Abuja, dispatch riders—guys you’d think are just delivering food or parcels—caught moving drugs around the city. And in other states, NDLEA teams are burning down cannabis farms, clearing out warehouses. It’s like the whole country’s fighting this drug war, one arrest at a time.

But that widow in Lagos? Her story just stands out. Fake pregnancy, real trouble. Sometimes, life just takes a turn you never see coming.