{"id":246752,"date":"2026-10-09T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-customs-uncovers-%e2%82%a63-67bn-drug-haul-in-imported-cars-spare-parts\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:30:24","slug":"nigeria-customs-uncovers-%e2%82%a63-67bn-drug-haul-in-imported-cars-spare-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-customs-uncovers-%e2%82%a63-67bn-drug-haul-in-imported-cars-spare-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Customs Uncovers \u20a63.67bn Drug Haul in Imported Cars, Spare Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The importation of illicit drugs concealed in used vehicles and automobile spare parts has come under scrutiny following the interception of two 40-foot containers containing suspected narcotics worth an estimated \u20a63.67 billion at Tin Can Island Port, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The seizure was made by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin Can Island Port Command, in collaboration with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The seized substances included Delta-8 cannabis-infused cookies and gummies,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610090602.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The importation of illicit drugs concealed in used vehicles and automobile spare parts has come under scrutiny following the interception of two 40-foot containers containing suspected narcotics worth an estimated \u20a63.67 billion at Tin Can Island Port, Lagos. The seizure was made by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin Can Island Port Command, in collaboration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246753,"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":[55620,258,256,8285,6944,6949,10843,12562,257,4687,393,7980,254,19751,9372],"class_list":["post-246752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-3-67bn","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cars","tag-customs","tag-drug","tag-haul","tag-imported","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-parts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spare","tag-uncovers"],"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\/246752","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=246752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}