How NDLEA Nabbed Pretty Mike

By Adesina Soyooye

A Lagos-based  socialite and nightclub owner, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, has been arrested by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

Popular as Pretty Mike, he was arrested in a-wee-hour raid at his Night Club, Proxy Nightclub, Victoria Island, Lagos,  alongside Tuoyo Ideh,  a former  BB Housemate. Also arrested were  more than 100 guests during the midnight raid at the Nightclub.

In a statement signed by NDLEA’s Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, and posted on its website  Sunday the Agency  alleged that many cartons of banned substances, including Loud and laughing gas, were recovered from the Nightclub.

The statement said NDLEA operatives acting on credible intelligence and infiltrated the club around 11 pm Saturday, based on standard operating procedures, and  swooped on the party at about 3.00.am.

The statement reads:

“In Lagos, NDLEA operatives in the early hours of Sunday, October 26, raided Proxy Night club at 7 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, where a drug party was going on. Over 100 suspects, including the owner of the club, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, alias Pretty Mike, were arrested and taken into custody for screening. Cartons of illicit substances, including Loud and laughing gas, were recovered from suspects at the party and the club’s store.

“The raid followed intelligence about the drug party. NDLEA operatives who were embedded in the party between 11 pm on Saturday, 25th October, however, disrupted the gathering at 3 am on Sunday, 26th October based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).”

Confirming his arrest, Tuoye who confirmed his arrest  on his Instagram page Sunday lamented his ordeal and expressed displeasure at his arrest.

“I have been arrested by the NDLEA from a night club in Lagos for basically doing nothing at all since around 4 am, they made us sit down like criminals, we over 150 people here up till now, that were carried to NDLEA head quarters Ikoyi, we didn’t commit any crime, they came with guns inside and the club and told everyone to lie down”, he wrote.

In another development, the NDLEA  disclosed  at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, it  intercepted 70 parcels of cocaine concealed inside cocoa butter body cream containers bound for London, United Kingdom.

The weight of the Cocaine, discovered on October 14, 2025, weighed 3.6kg and was discovered during the examination of cargoes declared as personal effects and scheduled to be exported on an Air Peace flight to London.

Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, the Cargo Agent, who brought the consignment for airfreighting was arrested. Investigations conducted over two weeks led to the arrest of two other suspects, a female healthcare worker, Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah, and the Chief Executive Officer of a travel agency, Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi.

Said the NDLEA:

“The cocaine consignments weighing 3.60 kilograms were discovered on 14th October 2025 during examination of cargoes packaged as personal effects going to London, UK on an Air Peace flight. A cargo agent, Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, who presented the consignment for airfreight, was promptly arrested while investigations stretching into two weeks led to the arrest of two principal suspects linked to the attempt to export the concealed Class A drug to the UK.

“In a follow-up operation on 18th October, a female healthcare worker, Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah, was arrested, following which Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, the Chief Executive Officer of a travel agency, Mutiu Adebiyi & Co, was arrested at his 23 Ladoke Akintola Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos office on Monday 20th October.”

In a similar operation, NDLEA officers at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, foiled an attempt by a 35-year-old Lesotho national, Lemena Mark, to smuggle 103.59 grams of methamphetamine concealed in a Diabeta herbs coffee tea pack to the Philippines on an Ethiopian Airlines flight on October 22.

Babafemi said that the suspect was arrested at the airport and the illicit substance recovered.

In Kwara State, the agency intercepted 21,950 capsules of tramadol 250mg hidden inside a 100-litre water heater. Umar Abubakar,  the suspect, aged 40, was, based on credible intelligence,  arrested on October 21 at Bode Saadu, Moro Local Government Area.

And, in Taraba State, “two suspects — Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22 — were arrested on October 21 with 450,000 pills of tramadol and Exol-5 at the Dan-anacha checkpoint.

“The drugs were being conveyed in a truck loaded with building materials from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Mubi, Adamawa State.

Along the Okene/Lokoja highway in Kogi State, officers seized 162.2kg of skunk, a strain of cannabis, from a truck on October 24. Another 128kg of the same substance was recovered from a suspect, Abubakar Muhammad, 55, in Keffi, Nasarawa State, on October 22.

“In Lagos, a mother of two, identified as Oyonumoh Glory Effiong, described as a major distributor of high-grade cannabis known as Loud across Lekki, Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Ajah, and VGC, was arrested on October 17 during a raid at her Lekki home, where 500 grams of the substance were recovered.

“In another Lagos operation, NDLEA officers raided the home of a suspect, Ogunyabo Adenigbigbe, at Solomade Estate, Ikorodu, where 275 litres of skuchies — a cocktail of blackcurrant drink, cannabis, and opioids — were recovered.

Also, a 75-year-old grandfather, Echendu Onuoka, was arrested with 4.7kg of skunk at Ovum village, Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, while a 60-year-old woman, Aukana John, was arrested with 225 grams of the same substance at Apanta village in the same area.”