/ 25 September 2001

NIGERIAN COPS NET TWO ON COCAINE CHARGES

NIGERIAN authorities on Monday charged a Filipino man and his alleged Nigerian accomplice with illegally importing cocaine in the country’s biggest-ever drugs bust. Angelito Marinay was charged along with a Nigerian, Moshood Olatunji, after a haul of 60 kilogrammes of cocaine worth nine million dollars were found on a ship at Lagos main port in August. Nigeria is considered one of the main points of entry to Europe and the United States for cocaine originating in Asia and South America. – AFP