{"id":3914,"date":"2026-01-04T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3914\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:59:11","slug":"nigeria-arrests-22-indian-ship-crew-members-in-drug-bust-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3914\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria arrests 22 Indian ship crew members in drug bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAGOS: Nigeria&#8217;s drug enforcement agency on Sunday (Jan 4) said it had arrested 22 Indian crew members of a merchant ship after 31.5kg of cocaine was found on the vessel at Lagos&#8217;s main port.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure was made on Jan 2 aboard MV Aruna Hulya, which &#8220;originated from Marshall Islands&#8221;, Femi Babafemi, spokesman for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has long been considered a trafficking and production hub for drugs bound for Europe and other African countries.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said in November that it arrested 20 Filipino sailors caught ferrying at least 20kg of cocaine from Brazil to the same port.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that month, NDLEA said it was working with US and British anti-drug agencies to investigate a cartel behind the importation of 1,000kg of cocaine discovered in a container at a Lagos port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAGOS: Nigeria&#8217;s drug enforcement agency on Sunday (Jan 4) said it had arrested 22 Indian crew members of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[301,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-3914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-india","9":"tag-nigeria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}