A 70-year-old grandmother, Selifat Funke Cole, and her son, Babajide Ayorinde Cole, have been arrested for drug trafficking.
They were arrested in Lagos by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday, December 21.
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In a statement yesterday, the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, said the NDLEA raided a house in the Mushin area of Lagos where the suspects were apprehended with 117.9kgs of cannabis sativa.
Also in the statement, Mr. Babafemi said no fewer than 7,500,000 pills of tramadol 225mg were intercepted by the NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, adding that the substance was trafficked through the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc import shed of the airport and was intercepted by officers with the cooperation of men of the Nigeria Customs and other stakeholders.
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