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JUST IN: NDLEA Arrests Notorious Drug Baron

Demilade Bakare
Demilade Bakare
Published: June 13, 2025
Last updated: June 13, 2025
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JUST IN: NDLEA Arrests Notorious Drug Baron | Daily Report Nigeria
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  • Operatives of the NDLEA have arrested a suspected drug Kingpin.

  • The suspect was said to have been arrested after two years in the run, following four failed attempts to export cocaine out of Nigeria.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has apprehend one Alhaji Suleiman Ganiu Aremu (a.k.a Barryshine after two years on the run.

According to reports, the suspect has been on the wanted list of the agency after since two years, after the agency linked four drug trafficking attempts to him.

 

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Daily Report Nigeria gathers that Suleiman had allegedly attempted to move cocaine to Saudi Arabia and Qatar through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos between 2022 and 2024.

 

Confirming the arrest in a statement released by the spokesperson of the Agency, Femi Babafemi, on Friday, September 13 said;

 

The statement reads in part:

“Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have taken into custody a wanted drug baron, Alhaji Suleiman Ganiu Aremu (a.k.a Barryshine) two years after coming under the radar of the anti-narcotics Agency.

 

“Suleiman who is the Managing Director/CEO of Barryshine Suleiman Nigeria Ltd came under the Agency’s watchlist over his alleged role in four foiled attempts to export cocaine to Saudi Arabia and Qatar through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos between 2022 and 2024.

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His name first featured on November 13, 2022, when a female passenger on a Qatar Airlines flight to Saudi Arabia, Alhaja Ajisegiri Kehinde Sidika was arrested at the MMIA in possession of 400 grams of cocaine, which was concealed inside female footwear. An investigation later revealed that one Abdullahi Olarenwaju Ramon, who is a brother to Suleiman hired the arrested drug courier. Further facts emerged that the flight tickets and other travel expenses of the suspect were sourced by Alhaji Suleiman Ganiu Aremu.

 

“A few days after the arrest of Ajisegiri Kehinde Sidika, another drug mule, Lawal Lateef Oyenuga was also arrested on November 24, 2022, with the same quantity of cocaine, 400 grams, concealed in male footwear while going to the same destination, Saudi Arabia.

“While the investigation of the two cases subsisted and the manhunt for the baron was ongoing, two drug mules were arrested at the MMIA on June 21, 2024, on their way to Doha, Qatar. One of the suspects who was later identified as Aikhomoun Daniel (a.k.a Oladapo Olanrewaju) expelled in observation custody a total of 90 pellets of cocaine, weighing 1.022kg, which he ingested, while the second suspect, Ayigoro Waheed Omobolaji excreted 60 wraps of cocaine with a total weight of 662 grams.”

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