{"id":1215469,"date":"2022-10-03T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/ex-nigerian-footballer-arrested-for-alleged-drug-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:36:08","slug":"ex-nigerian-footballer-arrested-for-alleged-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/ex-nigerian-footballer-arrested-for-alleged-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Nigerian footballer arrested for alleged drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"348\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1650969051_322_Arrest-Northeast-Today-696x348.jpg\"   alt=\"Northeast Today\" title=\"Arrest\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Former Nigerian footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior, has been remanded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos\u00a0for alleged drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)\u00a0arrested the former player, who arrived in possession of 1.40kg of crack cocaine, reports gathered by Guardian Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>According to NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, the 33-year-old left Nigeria after enjoying four seasons with University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH Enugu FC. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, his football career was cut short due to documentation issues after he moved to Brazil from Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/33425931.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"396\"\/><figcaption><strong>Erstwhile Nigerian footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior (Credit: Odita Sunday)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Agency also confirmed another Brazil returnee named lbeh Chinedu was arrested for concealing 3.20kg of black cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother Brazilian returnee, Ibeh Chinedu Damian was arrested the same day upon his arrival at the Lagos airport from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Ethiopian airlines flight. Ibeh who hails from Ahiazu, Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, was found to have concealed 3.20kg of black cocaine popularly known as \u2018Lucci\u2019 in the false bottoms of his two bags.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"NcPDcjMEbQk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Media Review on Adom TV (3-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NcPDcjMEbQk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior, has been remanded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos\u00a0for alleged drug trafficking. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)\u00a0arrested the former player, who arrived in possession of 1.40kg of crack cocaine, reports gathered by Guardian Nigeria. According to NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, the 33-year-old left Nigeria after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[63,2766,236,26813,863,5034],"class_list":["post-1215469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alleged","tag-arrested","tag-drug","tag-exnigerian","tag-footballer","tag-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}