Calabar—Bishop Frank Owali of the World Overseer of Hebron-Harvest International Ministry, with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, has raised alarm over alleged hostile treatment and harassment of Nigerians by the authorities of Thailand. The cleric, who fled the country, alleged that at the time of his departure no fewer than 700 Nigerians have been arrested and […]
BANGKOK, July 25 – Narcotics Suppression Bereau police on Monday arrested four foreigners smuggling drugs worth over Bt9 million. Two Iranian men, Reza Mirzaei, 24, and Ghodrat Jabbari, 46, were apprehended at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi international airport with 1,800 grammes of crystal meth or ‘ice’, worth an estimated Bt5.4 million in value, hidden in spray bottles […]
BANGKOK, June 11 — Thai police have arrested two foreign men — a Nigerian and a Ghanaian – and charged them with drug possession and trafficking, police said. Police said they apprehended a 36-year-old Nigerian man identified as Michael Ankrah and Yeboh Eric, 38, of Ghana in front of a house in Bangkok’s Hua Mark […]
BANGKOK, May 19 – Two Nigerian men, suspected of being part of a drug smuggling ring, were arrested Thursday with 500 grammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ‘ice,’ valued at an estimated Bt1 million (US$33,300) in eastern Bangkok’s Ramkhamhaeng area, according to narcotics suppression police. Identified as Ahamefule Cosmos and Iriegbe Chinonso, the two […]
A Nigerian man and a Thai woman were arrested this morning in a border district of Songkhla province with 25 kilogrammes of marijuana, or ganja, they were taking to Malaysia. Police in Songkhla’s Sadao district said they received a tip off about the couple. Sadao police then intercepted them while they were boarding a local […]
A Nigerian man and Guinean woman were nabbed at Suvarnabhumi Airport with 4.6 kilograms of crystal meth, while a package containing 490 grams of raw opium bound for the United States was seized. Narcotics Suppression Police first arrested Nigerian Emerga Emmanuel Ogafor, 36, allegedly bound for Cambodia, and found two kilograms of crystal meth hidden […]
Narcotics Suppression officers have arrested seven suspected drug traffickers in separate busts this week, seizing a combined eight kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, or “ice”, and 100,000 amphetamine pills. The seven include two Malaysian nationals, two Hmong, a Burmese, a Nigerian and a Cambodian, NSB chief Atithep Panjamanond said yesterday. Bangkok Post
A Nigerian man was arrested at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport along with two kilograms of crystal meth, which was reportedly bound for Malaysia, police said Tuesday. Acting upon a tip-off that a Nigerian man will transport crystal meth from Ethiopia through Thailand to Malaysia, police searched the 22-year-old suspect Ejike Cornnelius Onho and found two […]
