Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted opioids worth over N9 billion in street value.
According to available information, the opioids were found in containers that arrived at Onne Ports, Port Harcourt in Rivers State from India.
The NDLEA operatives intercepted 13,298,000 pills of opioids, including Tramadol, Tramaking Quick Action Tramadol, Tamol-X, Royal Tapentadol, and Carisoprodol, as well as 338,253 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup.
All the seizures are worth over N9,017, 771,000 in street value.
The opioids were recovered in three containers coming from India, targeted by the NDLEA during a 100 percent joint examination of the cargoes with men of the Nigerian Customs Services and other port stakeholders on October 2 and 3, 2024.
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Similarly, NDLEA operatives at the Tincan seaport in Lagos on Thursday 3rd October intercepted 100 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 50kg.
The consignment was packed in 20 parcels each in five jumbo bags concealed in a container with four units of imported vehicles that came from Canada.
Though the container had earlier been cleared out of the ESS Libra Bonded Terminal in Ikorodu, but based on credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives were able to trace it to a warehouse in Ikorodu, where the illicit consignments were discovered in one of the imported vehicles, a Toyota Sienna bus.
A suspect, Abubakar Shuaibu Ibrahim, has already been taken into custody in connection with the seizure.