NDLEA Arrests Female Socialite, ‘Glow’, For Alleged Drug Trafficking

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has actually apprehended a 62-year-old Nigerian-American granny with 9.45 kg of marijuana at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The lady, determined by the NDLEA as Gloria Anetor Ubong-Okulaja, is extensively understood on social networks as’Glow ‘.

Ubong-Okulaja was jailed by NDLEA operatives throughout an operation on October 21, in what the firm referred to as part of its continuous crackdown on drug trafficking through Nigeria’s busiest airport.

The firm stated Ubong, a real estate agent based in Richmond, Texas, United States, shown up on a United Airlines flight from Houston.

A search of her 2 checked-in boxes supposedly exposed 18 parcels of loud, a marijuana pressure, weighing 9.45 kg and hidden with gift-wrapping paper inside a box.

Officers stated the parcels were thoroughly covered and concealed amongst individual products in an effort to avert detection, however were found throughout regular screening and physical search of her baggage.

Ubong, who holds Nigerian and United States passports, presumably informed detectives that her child and her child’s future brother-in-law had actually provided package to her home in the United States for onward shipment in Nigeria to her child’s future husband, recognized as Jibola.

The NDLEA stated examinations are continuous to develop the complete chain of those supposedly associated with the delivery, consisting of the desired receivers in Nigeria.

On Facebook, the suspect runs under the manage Glow Okulaja, where she is referred to as Mrs Okulaja.

The report kept in mind that the name has actually produced spotlight online due to the fact that of its association with Demola Okulaja.

The NDLEA has actually not specified that the suspect is wed to Demola Okulaja, and the company determined her by her complete name, Gloria Anetor Ubong-Okulaja.

As at the time of filing this report, no declaration had actually been released on her behalf, and she stays in NDLEA custody pending more examination and possible prosecution.

The arrest contributes to a series of current interceptions at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, where the NDLEA has actually heightened security on incoming travelers from the United States and other paths often utilized for drug trafficking.