The suspect said he served jail term in Malaysia for drug trafficking offences.
The NDLEA also said it arrested a trans-border drug trafficker, Odoh Peter Ikechukwu, with 8,740 ampoules of assorted opioids, weighing 395kg.
It said that the suspect was intercepted in a joint border operation with the Nigeria Customs Service at the Nigeria-Cameroon border in Mfum, Cross River State.
The drugs found on him include 1,080 ampoules of fentanyl injection, 2,160 ampoules of morphine sulphate injection, 3,010 ampoules of phenobarbital sulphate injection, 2,160 ampoules of pethidine injection, and 330 ampoules of midazolam injection.
Similarly, NDLEA operatives on April 11, arrested 27-year-old Aliyu Ibrahim with 20 ATM cards and 25,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and 250mg at Bachirawa area of Kano.
Another suspect, 48-year-old Gambo Lawan was nabbed in a follow-up operation at Wazobia motor park in Gwagwalada, FCT Abuja, following the seizure of a consignment of 8,960 pills of tramadol by NDLEA officers on routine check along Gwagwalada expressway on Monday, April 7.
Also, not less than 124 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, packaged in 11 jumbo bags were on April 11, recovered from the boot of a Lexus car marked KTU 54 CU driven by a suspect, Ademiluyi Adedapo Collins, 58, along Mokwa-Jebba Road, in Niger state.
