Favour Haruna, a 25-year-old pregnant lady, was detained by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Auchi, Edo State, in connection with 82 pinches of methamphetamine, as well as Loud, Arizona, and Colorado strains of cannabis, as well as codeine-based cough medicine.
This was said in a statement released on Sunday by NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi.
The NDLEA spokesman mentioned Okolie Nwabueze, a Brazilian returning to the country, was also detained for bringing 92 wraps of cocaine into the nation through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
Giving details, he said Nwabueze, a father of two, had arrived in Nigeria via a Qatar Airline flight en route Brazil-Doha-Abuja on Friday, and that the suspect was eventually placed under surveillance till he excreted the drugs which he had ingested.
Similarly, a 42-year-old man, Aliyu Kwasare, was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano for attempting to export a consignment of new psychoactive substance, Akuskura, to Saudi Arabia.
At the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, over one million tablets of Tramadol 225mg were seized by the NDLEA in collaboration with the Nigerian Customs.
The agency also arrested a freight agent, Aliyu Abubakar, on Friday, September 9, at the MMIA’s NAHCO export shed over an attempt to export a consignment of cannabis concealed inside bottles of Caro white body lotion.
In a related development, a raid at the cannabis plantation camp in Emure forest, Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State led to the arrest of Monday Onoja, 20; Daniel Kehinde, 25, and Obinna Okechukwu, 35, with 16 bags of the illicit substance seized from them.
