The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Ikeja, said it had intercepted prohibited goods, including 3,407.83kg of cannabis, cocaine and methamphetamine, among others, with a total duty-paid value of N6.19bn in four weeks.
The Acting Customs Area Comptroller in charge of the unit, Oladapo Afeni, disclosed this on Tuesday during his maiden press briefing in Ikeja, Lagos.
Afeni stressed that the seizures were a product of 195 interception operations carried out under the unit’s renewed enforcement strategy.
Afeni mentioned that the seizures included 5,986 parcels of cannabis weighing 3,407.83kg, 400 grams of cocaine and 100 grams of methamphetamine.
According to him, other seized items were various quantities of imported rice, 173 cartons of frozen poultry products, 6,949 cartons of smuggled spaghetti, 459 bales and 39 jumbo sacks of second-hand clothing, 1,236 used tyres, 8,025 litres of premium motor spirit and assorted pharmaceutical products, including codeine syrup.