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Over a Ton of Cocaine Seized in Nigeria's Biggest Drug Bust

Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has seized a record 1.8 tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of U.S.$278 million, in what it called, a record seizure.

The cocaine were found in a warehouse in Ikorodu, a suburb of Lagos, the nation's commercial hub. The four people arrested - three Nigerians and a Jamaican national - are part of an international drug syndicate that the agency has been trailing since 2018. The agency said the drugs were destined for Europe and Asia.

Drug seizures have been rising in West Africa in the last year, indicating that traffickers have made the continent a hub to move their illegal products between South America and Europe, Deutsche Welle reports.

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