The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said it saved 20 people from the death penalty in Asia by preventing them from smuggling drugs out of Nigeria. In a statement released on Thursday, the agency said since January 2014, 19 Nigerians and a Ghanaian have been arrested in Nigerian airports attempting to smuggle 106,914 kilogrammes of narcotics. Ahmadu Giade, NDLEA’s [...]
Another Nigerian man gets death sentence for trafficking drugs in Indonesia
Another Nigerian has been sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking, media reports said on Thursday. The district court in Tangerang near Jakarta on Wednesday found Simon Ikechukwu Ezeaputa guilty of controlling a drug transaction from his prison cell, where he is serving a 20-year jail term for drug offences, Liputan6.com news portal said. Reports said the [...]
Female drug trafficker caught hiding drugs in vagina
A 31-year-old female drug trafficker, Onyinye Juliet Aladi, a single mother, was a pathetic sight when she was nabbed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, with 430 grammes of heroin stuffed into her private parts during the inward screening of passengers on an Emirate flight into the country. The woman later confessed to operatives of the National Drug [...]