The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency arrested Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, a Lagos socialite and nightclub owner known as Pretty Mike, along with former Big Brother Naija Housemate Tuoyo Ideh and more than 100 other people during a midnight raid on Proxy Nightclub in Victoria Island, Lagos.
The agency said in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, and posted on its website today that during the operation that took place early this morning, Sunday, October 26, 2025, they found cartons of banned drugs, such as Loud and laughing gas.
Reports from Sunday PUNCH say that NDLEA agents acting on reliable information entered the club about 11 p.m. yesterday and then attacked the party at 3 a.m. according to routine operating protocols.
The statement says, “In Lagos, NDLEA officers raided Proxy Night Club at 7 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, early on Sunday, October 26, where a drug party was going on. More than 100 people were arrested and transported to jail for screening. Among them was the club’s owner, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, also known as Pretty Mike. Police found cartons of illegal drugs, such as Loud and laughing gas, on suspects during the party and in the club’s store.
“The raid happened after we got information about the drug party. NDLEA agents who were at the party from 11 p.m. on Saturday, October 25, to 3 a.m. on Sunday, October 26, interrupted the event based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Tuoye confirmed his arrest on Sunday by posting on Instagram about how bad it was and how upset he was about it.
He wrote, “The NDLEA arrested me at a nightclub in Lagos for basically doing nothing at all since around 4 am. They made us sit down like criminals. There were over 150 of us here up until now, and they took us to the NDLEA headquarters in Ikoyi. We didn’t do anything wrong. They came in with guns and told everyone to lie down.”
Our correspondent tried to get in touch with Pretty Mike for remarks, but he didn’t reply to calls or messages by the time this report was filed.
The agency also revealed that at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, they stopped 70 packages of cocaine hidden in cocoa butter body cream containers that were on their way to London, United Kingdom.
On October 14, 2025, 3.6 kilograms of cocaine were found in cargo that was supposed to be personal items and was about to be sent to London on an Air Peace flight.
Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, the cargo agent who brought the package for airfreight, was arrested right away. After two weeks of more investigation, two other suspects were arrested: Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah, a female healthcare worker, and Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, the CEO of a travel agency.
aboard October 14, 2025, investigators found 3.60 kilograms of cocaine hidden in luggage that was traveling to London, UK, aboard an Air Peace flight. Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, a cargo agent who sent the shipment for air freight, was quickly detained. Investigations that lasted two weeks led to the arrest of two main suspects who were trying to smuggle the hidden Class A substance into the UK.
“On October 18, a female healthcare worker named Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah was arrested in a follow-up operation. On Monday, October 20, Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, the Chief Executive Officer of a travel agency called Mutiu Adebiyi & Co, was arrested at his office at 23 Ladoke Akintola Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos.”
NDLEA officers at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu stopped a 35-year-old man from Lesotho named Lemena Mark from smuggling 103.59 grams of methamphetamine hidden in a Diabeta herbs coffee tea pack to the Philippines on an Ethiopian Airlines flight on October 22.
Babafemi also said that the guy was caught at the airport and the illegal drug was found.
The agency also stopped 21,950 capsules of tramadol 250mg that were stashed inside a 100-liter water heater in Kwara State. On October 21, credible information led to the arrest of 40-year-old Umar Abubakar in Bode Saadu, Moro Local Government Area of the state.
In Taraba State, two people, Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22, were also apprehended on October 21 at the Dan-anacha checkpoint with 450,000 pills of tramadol and Exol-5. A truck full of building materials was taking the drugs from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Mubi, Adamawa State.
On October 24, officers stopped a truck on the Okene/Lokoja route in Kogi State and took 162.2 kg of skunk, a kind of cannabis. On October 22, police found another 128 kg of the same drug with a suspect named Abubakar Muhammad, 55, in Keffi, Nasarawa State.
On October 17, police raided Oyonumoh Glory Effiong’s home in Lekki and found 500 grams of high-grade cannabis known as Loud. She is a mother of two and a big dealer of the drug across Lekki, Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Ajah, and VGC.
In another Lagos operation, NDLEA police raided the residence of a suspect, Ogunyabo Adenigbigbe, at Solomade Estate, Ikorodu, where 275 litres of skuchies – a mixture of blackcurrant drink, cannabis, and opiates — were seized.
Also, in the Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, a 75-year-old grandpa named Echendu Onuoka was caught with 4.7 kg of skunk in Ovum village. A 60-year-old woman named Aukana John was also caught with 225 grams of the same drug in Apanta village in the same area.
During a raid at Lot Camp in Ikun Akoko, Ondo State, operatives found 150 kg of skunk. In Kaduna State, two suspects, Bashir Mohammad, 50, and Samini Ahmed Tijjani, 35, were caught with 234.5 kg of the narcotic. Along the Abuja/Kaduna highway, police detained Isah Usman, 50, and Salvation Okoler, 18, with 8,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and rohypnol.
Jacob Ojugbele was nabbed with 55 kg of skunk at Ashipa, Badagry, near the Seme border area of Lagos. Amusa Oluwabukola was caught with 121.3 liters of skuchies at Itoga, Badagry.
On October 20, NDLEA agents patrolling the Gummi–Anka road in Zamfara State arrested a 30-year-old man named Abubakar Ibrahim. He had an AK-47 rifle and 1,746 rounds of ammunition for AK-47 and GPMG rifles, which he was allegedly bringing from Sokoto to the Bagega forest in the Anka Local Government Area. The suspect and the evidence were given to the right security agency for more investigation.
The agency had found a number of drug concealment attempts in the past several weeks. For example, they found cocaine hidden in body cream containers going to the UK and methamphetamine packaged in herbal tea sachets at Lagos and Enugu airports.
Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.), the chairman of the NDLEA, praised officers throughout the commands for their dedication and urged them to keep up the agency’s fight against drug traffickers and its War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) campaign across the country.
Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, praised the officers and men of MMIA, AIIA, Lagos, Kwara, Abia, Nasarawa, Kogi, Ondo, Anambra, Taraba, Kaduna, Seme, and Zamfara Commands for their arrests and seizures. He also told them and their colleagues across the country to keep using the Agency’s balanced approach to drug control.
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