BANGKOK, Jan 31 – Thai police arrested a Nigerian woman arriving at Suvarnabhumi Airport with a large amount of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice, worth Bt9 million (US$300,000). Jennifer Chinenye Nwankuuo, 28, left Nairobi by Kenya Airlines and was arrested with three kilogrammes of ice and cash in US$1,950 (Bt58,500) and 5,935 naira (US$39 […]
BANGKOK, Dec 19 – Thai police on Sunday arrested a Nigerian man in Bangkok with 20 bags of cocaine, valued Bt5.25 million (about US$175,000) while he was delivering the drug to a client. Tourist Police commander Pol Maj-Gen Adisorn Ngamjitsuksri said the 30-year-old Nigerian national was identified as Ohanyiri Onyekwere Alentine. He was arrested at […]
MADRID—Spanish police arrested seven men in Barcelona, suspected of stealing passports for radical Islamic cells in Thailand and Pakistan, and collaborating with the group that carried out the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, the country’s Interior ministry said Wednesday. The suspects, six Pakistanis and one Nigerian, are believed to be part of a European network that […]
SA KAEO, Nov 1 – A Nigerian man on Monday was detained at the Thai-Cambodian border province of Sa Kaeo with 367 grammes of heroin, valued at Bt1.4 million (some $47,000), according to Pol Lt-Col Seksan Wattanapong, chief of Khlong Luek Police Station. Nigerian national Iyiobi Ifeanyi, 38, was apprehended in Thailand’s Aranyaprathet district on […]
The number of Thai and Nigerian women exploited for sexual purposes in Sweden has increased, according to a police report on human trafficking. The number of reports involving the exploitation of mentally handicapped women has also increased, according to a report on human trafficking from Sweden’s National Police Board (Rikspolisstyrelsen) released on Tuesday. “Alarming,” Kajsa […]
A suspected drug dealer from Nigeria was arrested by Pattaya Police in the early hours of Tuesday Morning. The operation began with a call made to another suspected dealer who arranged for a quantity of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as “ice” to be delivered to the caller. The Nigerian man, later named as Mr. Francis […]
