The 53-year-old suspect was arrested by anti-narcotics operatives yesterday at the departure hall of the MurtalaMuhammed International Airport, Ikeja.
Spokesman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement.
The suspect is said to have concealed five thousand tablets of Tramadol in his luggage on his way to Italy, via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight.
Preliminary investigation reveals that the suspect is a frequent traveler who often travels with lots of bags containing mainly food items, body cream, hair attachment and drinks.
Similarly, NDLEA operatives on August 29 raided a suspected clandestine crystal meth-amphetamine laboratory at Opic Estate, Agbara, Lagos which led officers to another laboratory in the vicinity where one Peter James was apprehended with some quantity of the substance.
