Nigeria’s narcotics agency has seized three million capsules of opioids at the main seaport in the commercial city of Lagos, a spokesman said Friday. The seizure came a day after 8.6 kilogrammes of cannabis were impounded in another operation in the city. The illicit drugs were intercepted at the port during an inspection on March 7, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) spokesman Femi Babafemi said in a statement. “The seizure of 3,000,000 capsules of Tapentadol and Carisoprodol… followed a similar operation in which anti-narcotic officers of the agency also intercepted 8,613 kilogrammes of cannabis smuggled in from Ghana,” he said. A senior Nigerian police officer, Abba Kyari, is currently facing charges for drug trafficking and his alleged links with an international drug cartel.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2022 13:37 UTC