The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrests a 101-year-old woman and her daughter after cocaine is reportedly found hidden inside fufu, an edible cassava flour. NDLEA says operatives made the discovery during separate drug interdiction operations and recovered illicit drugs concealed in food.
According to NDLEA, the arrests occur alongside additional seizures carried out in other parts of the country, including consignments of cannabis. Daily Post and Information Nigeria both report that the total value of recovered drugs in the operations is more than N4.4 billion, including cocaine and cannabis. Daily Post specifies that the woman was allegedly retailing cannabis (cannabis indica, called “Loud”), while Information Nigeria focuses more on the cocaine concealment in fufu and the arrest of the elderly woman.
Both outlets present the case as part of NDLEA’s wider efforts to disrupt drug distribution, but they differ slightly in emphasis—one highlights retail cannabis activity alongside the fufu finding, while the other foregrounds the alleged use of fufu as a concealment method.
