The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted two containers of imported opioids with a street value of N4.3 billion at the Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne, Rivers and Tincan, Lagos state.
The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday in Abuja said that the drugs were intercepted on Thursday during a joint examination with men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other security agencies.
He gave a breakdown of the seizures as a total of 168,000 bottles of codeine based syrup worth N1.1billion in street value and 4.5 million pills of super royal tramadol 225 milligrams valued at N3.2billion.
Babafemi further said that the NDLEA operatives also intercepted 92 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis with a combined weight of 23.25 kilograms at the Tincan seaport in Lagos.
He said that the discovery was made during a joint examination of a container from Canada by NDLEA officers, men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other stakeholders.
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