OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 63-year-old Chinese grandmother, Ting Hung Kiong, for attempting to smuggle a large consignment of illicit drugs worth millions of naira into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos State.
Kiong, a Chinese national said to have naturalised in Malaysia, was intercepted on Sunday, May 17, 2026, shortly after arriving in Nigeria from Thailand via Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), aboard an Emirates Airline flight.
According to a statement by the Agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, operatives attached to the Terminal 2 Arrival Hall of the airport intercepted Kiong with two large travel boxes containing 31 kilogrammes of Canadian Loud, a potent synthetic strain of cannabis.
He said preliminary investigation revealled that the suspect travelled from Malaysia to Thailand before heading to Nigeria through the UAE with the illicit consignment concealed in her luggage.
The suspect was reported to have told investigators that she worked as a caregiver in Malaysia and her daughter financed the trip from Malaysia to Thailand and subsequently to Nigeria, after spending two weeks in Thailand, where she was handed the consignment at the airport for delivery in Nigeria.
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