A 29-year-old man, Apeh Kelvin Ogbonna have been arrested while attempting to board Turkish airline flight TK0624 going through Istanbul to Cyprus, with 4.5 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in false bottoms of his travelling bag.
Ogbonna was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, by operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on Monday, February 13th.
The suspect claimed he was running a boutique business in Enugu before he decided to travel to Cyprus for a degree in Business Administration.
At three different courier firms in Lagos, operatives intercepted two cocaine consignments weighing 400 grams each, going to United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia.
They were hidden in walls of cartons used for packaging. Two other consignments containing 500 grams and 100 grams of methamphetamine were also blocked from being shipped to New Zealand after they were discovered concealed in food items.
