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Southwestern Nigeria has largely been spared major security threats – now it faces a troubling convergence of drugs and terror.<\/p>\n
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) recently uncovered an industrial-scale methamphetamine production facility deep in the Abidagba Forest in the country’s southwest. The seized drugs and precursor chemicals were reportedly valued at about US$363 million. Ten suspects, including three Mexicans, were arrested<\/a>.<\/p>\n While the size of the discovery is…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Southwestern Nigeria has largely been spared major security threats – now it faces a troubling convergence of drugs and terror. Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) recently uncovered an industrial-scale methamphetamine production facility deep in the Abidagba Forest in the country’s southwest. The seized drugs and precursor chemicals were reportedly valued at about US$363 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,54524,40742,257,4687,393,6790,7544,7349,4586,254],"class_list":["post-235233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-industrialscale","tag-meth","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-poses","tag-production","tag-risks","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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