Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested over 100 suspects, including Lagos socialite and club owner Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, popularly known as Pretty Mike, following a midnight raid at Proxy Night Club, located at 7 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The operation, which began in the early hours of Sunday, October 26, 2025, was launched after intelligence reports indicated that the venue was hosting a drug party.

In a statement on Sunday, the NDLEA said its officers recovered cartons of illicit substances, including Loud (a strong strain of cannabis) and laughing gas (nitrous oxide), from both partygoers and the club’s storage areas.

“NDLEA operatives, who were embedded at the party from 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, disrupted the gathering around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday in line with Standard Operating Procedures,” the statement read.

All arrested suspects were taken into custody for screening, while exhibits were secured as part of ongoing investigations.

In a separate operation, NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, intercepted 70 parcels of cocaine weighing 3.60 kilograms concealed inside cocoa butter body cream containers destined for London, United Kingdom.

The illegal shipment, discovered on October 14, 2025, during examination of cargoes labelled as “personal effects” on an Air Peace flight, led to the arrest of a cargo agent, Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, who presented the consignment.

Subsequent investigations spanning two weeks uncovered a wider drug network, resulting in the arrest of a female healthcare worker, Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah, on October 18, and Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, CEO of Mutiu Adebiyi & Co Travel Agency, at his Ikeja GRA office on October 20.

According to NDLEA, the suspects were linked to an organised attempt to smuggle the class A drug into the UK under the guise of cosmetics exports.

In Badagry, Lagos, Jacob Ojugbele was arrested with 55kg of skunk, and Amusa Oluwabukola with 121.3 litres of “skuchies”, a dangerous cocktail made from blackcurrant drink, cannabis, and opioids.

NDLEA operatives also arrested a mother of two, Oyonumoh Glory Effiong, described as a major distributor of Canadian and California “Loud” across Lekki, Ajah, Ikoyi, Victoria Island, and VGC.

She was apprehended on October 17 during a raid at her Lekki home, where 500 grams of Loud were recovered.

In Ikorodu, Lagos, NDLEA officers raided the residence of Ogunyabo Adenigbigbe at Solomade Estate, where 275 litres of skuchies were seized on October 23.

In a decisive step toward modernizing land administration and curbing fraudulent claims, the Enugu State Government, through the Office of the Surveyor General, has announced the revalidation and digitization of 105 layouts across the state. The initiative, part of the government’s Survey Records Modernization Programme, aims to create a transparent, verifiable, and fully digital survey database that secures property ownership and enhances service delivery.

PRESS RELEASE

ENUGU STATE GOVERNMENT

OFFICE OF THE SURVEYOR GENERAL

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: ENUGU STATE GOVERNMENT LISTS 105 LAYOUTS, SETS DECEMBER 31 DEADLINE FOR REVALIDATION AND DIGITIZATION

The Enugu State Government, through the Office of the Surveyor General, has released a list of 105 Layouts across the State earmarked for Revalidation and Digitization under its ongoing Survey Records Modernization Programme.

This exercise is designed to create a comprehensive and verifiable digital survey database that will enhance transparency in land records, protect ownership rights, and improve service delivery.

What Landowners Must Do

All landowners, estates, and plots within the underlisted areas are required to submit their layout and survey documents for:

• Verification and Revalidation

• Digital Conversion and Plot Mapping

• Issuance of New Electronic Survey Plans and Certificates

Deadline: December 31, 2025

The government has set December 31, 2025 as the deadline for compliance. After this date, any layout not revalidated will lose official government recognition, and all plots within such layouts will be classified as unverified in the State Land Database.

Property owners are strongly advised to act promptly by visiting the Office of the Surveyor General or their respective Local Government Survey Desks to complete the process.

Ministry of Lands and Urban Development

Independence Layout (Phases I–III, ECS, and Extensions)

Central Business District, Old GRA

Emene Industrial/Residential Layout

Nkpokiti Layout

Idaw River Layout

Station Estate

Heritage Estate

Prime City Estate

Innovation Estate

Paradise City Estate

Ropabike Estate

Royal District Layout

Sun City Layout

Evangel Garden, Trans-Ekulu

Diamond City Estate, GRA

Asata Layout

Akaegbe Ugwu Mechanic Village

Uwani Extension Layout

Golf Annex Phases I & II

New GRA, Old GRA Nsukka

Police Refresher School, Uwani

NTA and Adjoining Premises

One Day, Awkunanaw

Legacy Estate

Agangwu Layout, Coal Camp

Oasis Layout

Springfield Gardens Estate

Airport Gate Estate

Sunshine Estate Phase II

Block DB New Town, Ibagwa

Enugu State Housing Development Corporation (ESHDC)

31. WTC Ogui New Layout

32. Trinity Estate

33. Heritage Estate, Kingsway Road GRA

34. Victory Estate

35. Harmony Estate Phases I–III

36. Delight Estate

37. Valley Estate Phases I & II

38. Citadel Estate Phases I & II

39. Maryland Estate Phases I & II

40. Rock City Estate

41. Riverview Estate Phase I

42. Gateway Estate, Owo

43. Fidelity Estate

44. Himalayas Estate

45. Network Estate

46. Coal City Eastern Alliance Estate

47. Blossom Estate

48. Veritage Estate

49. Coal City Garden

50. Ebeano Estate

51. Ivory Estate, Parcel B

52. Greenland Estate Phases I & III

53. Liberty Estate Phases I & II

54. Zoo Estate

55. Tourist Estate

56. Platinum Estate, Trans-Ekulu

57. Golf Course Layout Phases I–V

58. Riverside Estate, Abakpa

59. Lakeside Layout, Onungene Umuenwene Iji-Nike

60. Transparency Estate, Uwani

61. Sunrise Estate, New Abakaliki Road

(The full list of all 105 layouts is available at the Office of the Surveyor General and on the official notice board.)

Signed:

Surv. Chime Justus U.

Surveyor General of Enugu State

Friday, October 17, 2025

The Delta State Police Command has uncovered a chilling case of kidnap and murder involving a 20-year-old herbalist, Amechi Okwuokenye, and his 26-year-old stepbrother, Smart Okwuokenye, both of Owa-Alidima in Ika North East Local Government Area.

According to a statement issued on Sunday, October 26, by the Command’s spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe, the suspects were arrested following the mysterious disappearance of a 22-year-old man, Friday Liberty, who went missing after visiting the herbalist’s shrine on September 30, 2025.

Liberty’s family, who had searched fruitlessly for him, later learned from his girlfriend that he had mentioned visiting a certain herbalist. When contacted, the herbalist denied seeing him but deceitfully offered to perform spiritual rites to help locate the missing man.

Following failed attempts to recover their son through the herbalist’s rituals, the family filed a petition at the Agbor Area Command on October 14, 2025.

Acting on the report, detectives launched an intelligence-driven investigation, which revealed that the herbalist was the last person in contact with the missing man.

After days of discreet surveillance, detectives swooped on the shrine on October 23, 2025, and found the herbalist crouched inside a refrigerator, desperately trying to evade arrest.

During interrogation, Amechi confessed to conspiring with his elder brother, Smart, to kidnap Liberty and a commercial motorcyclist, identified as Isioma Ugbeje, who had conveyed him to the shrine.

The suspects said they demanded a ransom of ₦10 million but killed both men when the ransom plan failed dumped their bodies in a soakaway pit beside the shrine.

Edafe added that the victims’ remains have been recovered and deposited in a mortuary for autopsy.

He further disclosed that the herbalist admitted Liberty had been a long-time client who sought his help to “hypnotize” people into giving him money.