The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency announced that its operatives have intercepted another consignment of 175,000 bottles of opioids imported from India, barely a week after seizing a shipment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup at the Port Harcourt Ports complex in Onne, Rivers State.
's Director of Media and Advocacy, the latest seizure of 875 cartons of codeine, containing 175,000 bottles and weighing 26,250 kg, was made on Friday, June 7, 2024, during a joint examination by officers from the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation intercepted five parcels containing illicit drugs concealed in ladies' clothes and synthetic hair destined for the United States and the United Kingdom on Wednesday, June 5. According to Babafemi, some of the seized drugs included 620 ampoules of pentazocine injection, promethazine, and other opioids. The drug consignments were seized at a courier firm in Lagos.
officers on patrol along the Ningi-Kano road on Wednesday, June 5, arrested a 20-year-old lady, Hasana Usman, with 25 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 28.2 kg, while their counterparts in Yobe State nabbed Ali Mohammed, 42, along the Kano-Potiskum road, with 19,000 pills of tramadol 225 mg concealed in a black sack and the suspect’s traveling bag.
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