Abuja, May 24, 2026 – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a 63-year-old Chinese woman, Ting Hung Kiong, while attempting to smuggle 31kg of Canadian Loud, a strain of cannabis, into Nigeria.
She was arrested by NDLEA operatives at Terminal 2 Arrival Hall of the Murtala Muhammed International airport on May 17, 2026 after she arrived in Nigeria from Thailand through Dubai on an Emirates Airline flight.
NDLEA said preliminary investigations showed that she travelled from Malaysia to Thailand before heading to Nigeria through the United Arab Emirates, carrying two large suitcases.
It said the bags contained 31 kilogrammes of a synthetic strain of cannabis known as “Canadian Loud.”
The NDLEA said the drug shipment reflects a continuing pattern of trafficking of high-value cannabis variants into Nigeria, particularly the “Canadian Loud” strain, which has featured in several recent large-scale seizures across Lagos.
It said the shipment contained 1,825,710 tablets of Tapentadol 250mg that arrived from India aboard an Emirates Cargo flight.
Officers placed the consignment under surveillance after its arrival before the Nigeria Customs Service handed it over to the NDLEA on 22 May.
The agency valued the seized drugs at N2.19 billion (N2,190,852,000).
The interception comes amid a series of recent high-value drug seizures involving synthetic opioids and cannabis consignments traced to international supply chains routed through Asia and North America, with Lagos repeatedly emerging as a key entry point.
The NDLEA also intercepted a 4,173.5-kilogrammes shipment of Canadian Loud cannabis worth over N10.4 billion at the Tin Can Island Port/
Its operatives at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu arrested a passenger, Onyeka Emeka, during inward clearance of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that arrived from Sierra Leone through Addis Ababa.
