Two containers of imported opioids with a street value of N4.3 billion have been intercepted at the Port Harcourt Ports complex, Onne, Rivers State by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)
NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi who made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the drugs were intercepted on Thursday, November 21, during a joint examination with men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and other security agencies.
He gave a breakdown of the seizures as 168,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth N1.1 billion in street value, recovered from one of the containers.
He added that the second one contained 4.5 million pills of super royal tramadol 225 milligrammes valued at N3.2 billion.
