Nigeria
NDLEA ANNOUNCES MORE THAN ₦5 BILLION IN DRUG SEIZURES AT NIGERIAN PORTS
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has announced the interception of drug consignments worth more than ₦5 billion in a series of operations involving Lagos and Onne ports. The largest seizure involved 2,595 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 1,297.5 kilograms at Tincan Island Port in Lagos. At Onne Port in Rivers State, officers recovered Loud and 109,600 bottles of codeine based cough syrup weighing 16,440 kilograms. Separately, the agency says a 38 year old businessman was arrested at Murtala Muhammed International Airport while allegedly attempting to travel to Milan with 4.80 kilograms of cocaine. The announcement was issued on Sunday, October 4, but the individual operations occurred on different dates.
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