Two siblings, John Abugu (43) and Kenneth Abugu (31), have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with 5kg of cocaine worth about N470 million.
The siblings were arrested at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, during check by eagle-eyed NDLEA operatives while attempting to board a plane to India with their illicit drugs.
The 5kg cocaine has a street value of over $300,000 ($60,000) per kilogram.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said the brothers claimed they were going for medical treatment, but a search revealed the drugs concealed in the lining of their luggage.
In a related operation at the same airport, NDLEA officers arrested a 20-year-old Ghanaian-British national, Parker Darren Hazekia Osei, with 36 parcels of Loud, a potent strain of cannabis weighing 19.4kg.
Osei, a self-proclaimed Computer Science student at East London University, said he picked up the drugs in Bangkok, Thailand, to deliver in Nigeria.
In Kogi State, 33-year-old Ngozi Ogili was arrested on March 31 while transporting 3kg of methamphetamine from Lagos to Abuja in a commercial bus. A follow-up operation at her delivery point in the Apo Mechanic area of Abuja led to the recovery of additional quantities of Loud and Colorado, synthetic cannabis variants.
Meanwhile, in Abia State, a 75-year-old man was arrested with quantities of skunk, another cannabis variant, while NDLEA operatives destroyed 250,000kg of cannabis in a Cross River community as part of ongoing anti-narcotics efforts.
