Azikiwe International Airport Abuja while attempting to board an Air France flight to Paris, France, after they discovered he ingested illicit drugs.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO imports shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, October 16, 2022, seized a consignment of 10 cartons containing 500,000 pills of tramadol 225mg branded as tapentadol. The cargo, which was shipped from India through Qatar Airways with airwaybill number MAWB 319-01227236 and was purported to be a transit cargo to Monrovia, Liberia.
In Imo state, operatives on Sunday, October 15, 2023 intercepted a Mercedes Benz container truck marked ABN 418 YN parked in an isolated area along Owerri-Onitsha expressway. A search of the abandoned truck led to the recovery of 168 bags of skunk weighing 1, 854 kilograms. While operatives of the Zone J Command of the anti-narcotics Agency seized 478kgs of cannabis in a forest in Ikere Ekiti on Friday, October 20, those of Ondo State command recovered a total of 928kgs of the same substance in a bush by Shagari Market, along Ifon-Owo express road, and Ibola camp, Ipele forest.