The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have again intercepted another consignment of 175,000 bottles of opioid imported from India.

The is coming barely a week after seizing a shipment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup at the Port Harcourt Ports complex in Onne, Rivers state.

The two seizures, according to a statement by the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, followed earlier intelligence, which made the Agency request that the shipment be stepped down for 100 percent examination.

He said the latest seizure of 875 cartons of codeine containing 175,000 bottles and weighing 26,250kg, was made during a joint examination by NDLEA, Customs Service and other security agencies.

He disclosed that some of the seized drugs include 620 ampoules of pentazocine injection, promethazine and other opioids, adding that the drug consignments were seized at a courier firm in Lagos.