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Published 6 June 2021
Illicit drugs including cocaine, heroin and cannabis weighing 37.3kilograms have been intercepted and seized on five different occasions, and seven persons arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
The drug traffickers were trying to either import into Nigeria or export to the United Kingdom and Italy.
The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, gave the hints in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday.
The first attempt to bring into Nigeria 76 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.150kg was made by Agudozie Peter Ihie on May 25, 2021. He was arrested during the inward security clearance of passengers on Qatar airline from Kenya, at the E-arrival Hall of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
Friday Olokor Published 1 May 2021A 47-year-old drug trafficker, Chigbogu Obiora, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos State.The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said on Friday that Obiora was put under observation during which he excreted 97 wraps of substances that tested positive to cocaine with a total weight of 1.55kg and a street value of.
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