Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered and foiled a bizarre drug-smuggling attempt by a woman who posed as a pregnant traveller to traffic tramadol across the Seme land border in Lagos.
The suspect, Rabi Muhammad, a 35-year-old businesswoman based in Kano, was intercepted on Monday, February 16, 2026, at the departure tarmac of the Seme land border while trying to cross into Cotonou, Benin Republic.
According to NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi, officers became suspicious of her unusually protruding abdomen and subjected her to a thorough body search.
“The discovery was shocking,” Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday, February 22. “Her pregnancy was fake. The baby bump was a pink-coloured calabash strapped to her stomach and stuffed with 3,200 capsules of tramadol, which she intended to smuggle into Cotonou for sale.”
The agency said the arrest underscores its intensified surveillance at border points and warned traffickers that desperate concealment methods would not evade detection.
