Tag: cocaine smuggling
Kebbi govt speaks on ‘hidden airport’ for cocaine smuggling in Argungu forest
While reacting to viral video on Wednesday, Malam Yahaya Sarki, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Gov. Nasir Idris…
Cocaine cargo worth $1.1billion found in Hamburg
Cocaine smugglers are getting more brazen in their business as 4.5 tonnes of cocaine worth €1billion ($1.1billion) was seized in…
Man, 61, arrested for cocaine smuggling
The NDLEA has arrested a 61-year-old man, Prince Ifeanyichukwu, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport for attempting to smuggle cocaine…
900 kg of cocaine in floating rucksacks seized in Spain
Spanish police seized 900 kilograms (nearly 2,000 pounds) of cocaine in rucksacks found floating in the sea and fitted with…
Cocaine: Togo arrests Angolan
An Angolan citizen who ingested 58 capsules containing 700 grammes of cocaine was arrested in Lome on Tuesday, according to…
Bricklayer with 2kg cocaine in stomach arrested
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) today arrested a 46-year-old bricklayer from Anambra, who attempted to smuggle 2.07kg of…
Mali war disrupts cocaine supply to Europe
PARIS(AFP) – France’s intervention in northern Mali against Islamist fighters involved in lucrative drug-running has disrupted cocaine supply to Europe…
News Analysis: Nigeria’s byzantine drug problems
President Jonathan will need to declare an emergency to deal with the country’s drug epidemic, writes Bayo Onanuga Nigeria’s anti-drug…
Sunny Ade’s ex-guitarist, Fatoke Caught with Cocaine
Simon Ateba/Lagos Fatoke Abiodun, Nigeria’s veteran guitarist, who played alongside legendary musician, King Sunny Ade for three decades, has been…
Woman held in Spain with cocaine breast implants
A Panamanian woman has been arrested in Spain with fake breast implants that turned out to be plastic bags containing…
Ghanaian arrested with cocaine at Nigeria’s border
Simon Ateba The Seme Border Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a 28-year old Ghanaian…
Cocaine hidden in steam roller
Cocaine hidden in a ship; cocaine liquified and then packed as coconut milk, cocaine hidden inside pendants or ingested—innumerable tactics…
Cocaine Hidden In Pendants Found At Lagos Airport
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Oluigboka Chukwuemeka Emmanuel thought he had cleverly concealed about 2.4 kilogrammes of cocaine in pendants and female…
Cocaine like ice cream seized at MMA
Creamy cocaine, weighing 9.5kg and valued at N90 million has been seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)…
UK Jails Arik Air Stewardess for Cocaine Smuggling
An air stewardess who was caught trying to smuggle a quarter of a million pounds worth of cocaine into the…