A Lagos socialite and entertainer, Mike Nwalie, extensively generally known as Fairly Mike has been arraigned over alleged unlawful drug actions earlier than a Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Lagos
Nwalie, the proprietor of Proxy Lagos Evening Membership, was arraigned alongside the 32- year- previous membership supervisor, Joachim Hillary, by the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA).
The duo had been arraigned earlier than Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa on a three-count cost bordering on conspiracy, possession, and permitting using the membership premises for unlawful drug actions.
The prosecution alleged that they dedicated the offence on October 30, 2025, and October 26, 2025, on the widespread nightclub positioned at No. 7 Akin Adesola Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The NDLEA alleged each defendants conspired to organise a drug get together on the membership premises, including that in a subsequent operation, brokers allegedly recovered a big cache of illicit substances.
The prosecution stated objects recovered included 200 grams of Hashish Sativa, a narcotic drug, and 177 cylinders of Nitrous Oxide, generally generally known as laughing gasoline. The cylinders of the stated substance, described by the company as dangerous and abused, reportedly weighed 364.662 kilogrammes.
Their alleged offence is opposite to and punishable beneath Part 14(b) of the NDLEA Act, Cap N30, Legal guidelines of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
Moreover, the supervisor, Hillary, was alleged to own the 200 grammes of Hashish sativa on or about October 25, 2025, on the identical location, with out lawful authority.
The prosecution stated his act contravenes Part 20(1)(c) and is punishable beneath Part 20(2)(b) of the identical Act.
The cost alleged that on or about October 26, 2025, Nwalie allowed the premises for use for a drug get together and drug dealing, opposite to and punishable beneath Part 12 of the NDLEA Act.
Following their plea of not responsible to all of the counts, the NDLEA counsel, Buhari Abdullahi, requested a trial date.Nonetheless, counsel for the defendants, Dr B.S. Awosika (SAN), knowledgeable the court docket of a pending bail software on behalf of his shoppers.
Awosika pleaded with the court docket to grant bail to the defendants on probably the most liberal phrases, insisting that that they had no prior legal data. He argued that the burden rests on the prosecution to indicate trigger why bail ought to be denied.
Responding to their bail software, Abdullahi contended that the defendants had not supplied ample materials info to justify bail and urged the court docket to dismiss the applying and order an accelerated listening to as a substitute.
In his ruling, Justice Lewis-Allagoa held that the burden lies on the prosecution to supply legitimate the reason why bail ought to be refused, noting that the defendants stay presumed harmless till confirmed responsible.
The decide additional acknowledged that the essence of bail is to make sure that defendants seem in court docket to face trial. He consequently granted every defendant bail within the sum of ₦50,000,000, with two accountable sureties in like sum.
Justice Lewis-Allagoa additionally ordered that the sureties should swear to an affidavit of means, and that the defendants ought to stay within the custody of their counsel pending the achievement of the bail situations and adjourned the trial to January 14, 2026.
