Crime
PHOTOS: NDLEA Arrests Lagos Socialite Pretty Mike, Others At Drug Party
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the early hours of Sunday, October 26, raided Proxy Night Club at 7 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, where a drug party was going on.
The anti-graft agency arrested over 100 suspects, including the owner of the club and Lagos socialite, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, alias Pretty Mike.
NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said the suspects were arrested and taken into custody for screening as cartons of illicit substances including Loud, and laughing gas, were recovered from suspects at the party and the club’s store.
He further explained that the raid followed intelligence about the drug party, and NDLEA operatives who were embedded in the party between 11pm on Saturday October 25, however, disrupted the gathering at 3am on Sunday, October 26, based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Also, NDLEA’s operatives have uncovered UK-bound cocaine in cream containers and meth in water heater.
A total of 70 parcels of cocaine factory-packed in walls of cocoa butter formula body cream containers heading to London, United Kingdom, have been uncovered at the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, with three suspects arrested in series of follow-up operations across Lagos.
The cocaine consignments weighing 3.60 kilograms were discovered on October 14, 2025 during examination of cargoes packaged as personal effects going to London, UK on an Air Peace flight. A cargo agent Lawal Mustapha Olakunle who presented the consignment for airfreight was promptly arrested while investigations stretching into two weeks led to the arrest of two principal suspects linked to the attempt to export the concealed Class A drug to the UK.
The NDLEA said in a follow-up operation on October 18, a female healthcare worker Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah was arrested following which Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, the chief executive officer of a travel agency, Mutiu Adebiyi & Co, was arrested at his 23 Ladoke Akintola Street, Ikeja GRA Lagos office on Monday, October 20.
In a similar development, attempt by a 35-year-old Lesotho national Lemena Mark to export 103.59 grams of methamphetamine concealed in a diabeta herbs coffee tea pack to the Philippines on an Ethiopian airlines flight from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA) Enugu on Wednesday, October 22, was thwarted by NDLEA officers who arrested him and recovered the illicit drug.
No fewer than 21,950 capsules of tramadol 250mg concealed inside a 100-litre water heater were recovered from a suspect Umar Abubakar, 40, who was arrested by NDLEA operatives at Bode Saadu, Morro local government area of Kwara state following credible intelligence on Tuesday, October 21.
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PHOTOS: Court sentences Akwa Ibom pastor to 49 years imprisonment for r@ping and impregnating his teenage daughter
An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a pastor, Apostle Williams Okon Bassey, to 49 years imprisonment for r@ping and impregnating his teenage daughter.
Hon. Justice Bassey delivered the judgment on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
Bassey, of Mount Zion Lighthouse Full Gospel Church, Uyo, was arrested at his residence on Ibanga Street on November 7, 2019.
Police paraded him alongside four other men, Nsikan Udo, Iniobong Moses, Saviour Ukpong and Festus Etuk, who were also arrested for r@pe and incest. (See photos of the men and victims attached)
The victim revealed that her father started having s3xual intercourse with her at age 13.
The continuous s3xual assault led her to become pregnant on three different occasions and the pregnancies were aborted by her mother.
She added that her father always demanded s3x from her before paying her school fees or meeting her needs.
Bassey confessed to the crime but claimed the assault started when his daughter was 16.
“I called my daughter to come and scratch my back, as she was scratching my back, I became tipsy, my daughter climbed on top of me and I f3cked her. That was my first time of sleeping with my daughter and she was about 16 years old then,” the pastor confessed.
“I took her to her mother’s place in Eket, after telling her that our daughter was pregnant, I handed her over to the mother who promised to get rid of the pregnancy.
“After the pregnancy was terminated, I continued having s3x with her each time I have misunderstanding with my wife.
“She became pregnant the second time. I still returned her to the mother who still took her to abort the pregnancy.
“When she returned the second time, I continued the act of s3xing her which resulted in the third pregnancy and the mother still took her for abortion.”
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A cleric of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah wa Ikamatis-Sunnah (JIBWIS), Alhaji Muhammad Maibarga, has d!ed in bandits’ den.
The Islamic cleric was kidnapped alongside his friend, a former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Koko/ Besse local government area of the state.
A video allegedly released by their abductors showed the late cleric in deteriorating health condition before he was later confirmed d3ad.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Kebbi Police Command, SP Bashir Usman, confirmed his d3ath to journalists on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
“We are aware of reports concerning the victim’s deteriorating condition and d3ath in captivity,” he said.
A family friend to the late cleric, Usman Aliyu, said efforts were on to secure his release from his abductors, when he d!ed due to his deteriorating health conditions.
The family were making efforts to meet the demands of his abductors.
“They are still looking for money demanded by the bandits so that he could be released to them, but we are devastated by the news of his d3ath in the hands of those that kidnapped him,” Aliyu said.
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PHOTOS: Court sentences Akwa Ibom pastor to 49 years imprisonment for r@ping and impregnating his teenage daughter
