{"id":121582,"date":"2024-06-15T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month"},"modified":"2024-06-15T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T12:41:09","slug":"customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month","title":{"rendered":"Customs intercept N4bn worth of drugs from Canada, India in one month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Customs Service has said it has intercepted various hard drugs worth N4.1bn coming from Canada and India within one month.<\/p>\n<p>Adewale Adeniyi, the Comptroller General of Customs, disclosed this while addressing journalists at the Tincan Island Command in Lagos on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the service intercepted several packs of cannabis indica weighing 1,072kg coming from Canada in the last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe service intercepted three plastic drums concealing several packets of Cannabis Indica, 46 bags containing 2,144 packets of Cannabis Indica all weighing 1,072kg imported from Canada. The approximate street value of the illicit substances is N3.2 billion,\u201d Adewale said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the service also intercepted 877 cartons of Bacardin Syrup coming from India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c877 cartons of Barcadin cough syrup with codeine-containing 200 bottles of 100ml in each carton and 82 cartons of Really Extra Diclofenac Sodium 50mg tablets 600 packs per carton imported from India was seized,\u201d the CGC said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the street value of the illicit pharmaceutical product intercepted in the period under review was N964 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Customs Service has said it has intercepted various hard drugs worth N4.1bn coming from Canada and India within one month. Adewale Adeniyi, the Comptroller General of Customs, disclosed this while addressing journalists at the Tincan Island Command in Lagos on Friday. He explained that the service intercepted several packs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":121580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[3130,1633,255,254],"class_list":["post-121582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-canada","tag-customs","tag-india","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Customs intercept N4bn worth of drugs from Canada, India in one month - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigeria Customs Service has said it has intercepted various hard drugs worth N4.1bn coming from Canada and India wit ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Customs intercept N4bn worth of drugs from Canada, India in one month\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigeria Customs Service has said it has intercepted various hard drugs worth N4.1bn coming from Canada and India wit ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-15T10:22:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-15T12:41:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1718438751.853659.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"721\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Customs intercept N4bn worth of drugs from Canada, India in one month\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-06-15T10:22:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-15T12:41:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month\"},\"wordCount\":192,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1718438751.853659.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"canada\",\"customs\",\"India\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/customs-intercept-n4bn-worth-of-drugs-from-canada-india-in-one-month\",\"name\":\"Customs intercept N4bn worth of drugs from Canada, India in one month - 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