The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme command has said it arrested 15 suspects in connection with smuggled goods intercepted by officials of the command.
The intercepted items were said to be worth over N788million.
The items included 7,667 50kg bags of foreign parboiled rice, three 50kg bags of sugar, 1,080,875 litres of petrol, 127 units of smuggled vehicles, 1,514 cartons of frozen poultry products, 646 packets of hard drugs, 166 parcels of cannabis sativa and 31,868 general merchandise goods.
Spokesman of the agency, Hussain Abdullahi said the suspects were arrested last year, some of whom released on administrative bail while others were being tried in the courts.
The Agency also said it had prevented the export of over 40 pharmaceutical and food products that failed laboratory analysis into Nigeria claiming that these products would have been consumed by Nigerians with adverse health implications.
