NIGERIAN ENFORCEMENT

Jun 12 2026CRIME

Indian sailors and ship caught smuggling cocaine into Nigeria pay heavy price

Eleven Indian sailors and their merchant ship faced a Nigerian court on drug trafficking charges earlier this year. Authorities discovered 31. 5 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a storage compartment when the vessel, the MV Aruna Hulya, docked at Lagos’s Apapa port in January. The drugs were bound for

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