Nigeria: NDLEA arrests suspected drug kingpin at Lagos Airport

Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency has arrested a 40-year-old man described as a “notorious drug lord” at Lagos’ Murtala Mohammed International Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Saudi Arabia for Umrah.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said Yussuf Abayomi Azeez had been under surveillance for months before his arrest. Spokesman Femi Babafemi said Azeez had previously been arrested and charged in the UK but…