Okafor Emmanuel, a Nigerian football player, was nabbed with cocaine at the Lagos airport.

Emmanuel Okafor, a Nigerian football player, was unsuccessful in bringing 1.40kg of crack cocaine to his country. Okafor Emmanuel, a former Nigerian football player, was detained for cocaine trafficking. At the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) detained Okafor. The former footballer traveled from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Nigeria through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and brought 1.40kg of crack cocaine in his luggage. On Monday, September 26, 2022, Okafor was detained as a result of the discovery. Okafor had flown from Ethiopia to Nigeria on an Ethiopian Airlines flight. He explained that he was a professional footballer just some years ago in the Nigerian National League (NNL). Okafor was a key player for NNL side University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH in Enugu FC for four seasons. Like most Nigerian footballers he traveled abroad in search of greener pastures. In 2014, Okafor left the shores of Nigeria for Sri Lanka and after two seasons moved to Brazil. He could not continue his professional football ambitions in Brazil due to the lack of official documents hence his return to the country. The NDLEA uploaded a video of discovered cocaine concealed in okafor bag on social media after the arrest.