{"id":10551,"date":"2022-10-02T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T11:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2022-10-02T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T11:25:58","slug":"ex-footballer-arrested-with-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10551","title":{"rendered":"Ex-footballer Arrested With Cocaine At Lagos Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Operatives of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ndlea.gov.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Drug Law Enforcement Agency<\/a>, NDLEA, have arrested an ex-footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10553\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10553\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3F881146-00A2-4530-942D-44816FEABD8A-132x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3F881146-00A2-4530-942D-44816FEABD8A-132x300.jpeg 132w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3F881146-00A2-4530-942D-44816FEABD8A.jpeg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Okafor Emmanuel Junior.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was arrested on his arrival from Sao Paulo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=brazil&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;hl=en-ng&amp;client=safari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on board an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=ethiopian+airline&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;hl=en-ng&amp;client=safari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethiopian airlines<\/a> flight with 1.40kg crack cocaine concealed in his bags. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 33-year-old indigene of Arochukwu Local Government, Abia State was arrested on Monday 26th September 2022 after anti-narcotic officers discovered he concealed the illicit substance in the handles of his bags and padded the top edges of same with the class A drug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During preliminary interview, Okafor disclosed that he was an ex-footballer with the <a href=\"https:\/\/unth.edu.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH Enugu<\/a> FC, where he played for four seasons before leaving for Sri Lanka in 2014. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He further stated that he moved to Brazil from Sri Lanka after playing for two seasons but could not advance his football career in Brazil due lack of official documents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDLEA arrested an ex-footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior with Cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[204,5889,138,5890,203],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-cocaine","tag-ex-footballer","tag-lagos","tag-murtala-muhammed-international-airport","tag-ndlea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10554,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions\/10554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}