Nigeria’s Customs Service intercepted 11 containers, including unregistered S3X enhancement drugs, expired food and other contraband, worth 92.1 billion guilds in the Apapa port from January to up to date.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, the 11 containers included five 40-foot containers, two 20-foot containers and four remaining loose concealed prohibited items.
He explained that out of the 11 occupied containers, five were carrying sexual enhancement drugs, adding that the items pose a clear danger to public health and could result in significant deaths if allowed to penetrate the domestic market.
The CGC provided details of the seizure, explaining that the first 40-foot container contained 89 unregistered drug cartons, while the second 40-foot container contained 242 unregistered drugs.
“The third 40-foot container has 1,001 cartons and packaged Hydra-sildenafil citrate tablets. These also lack the necessary NAFDAC registration. The other 40-foot containers have 1,400 packaged chest and lung beta beta beta beta betta betta betta betta betta betta betta betta table big beta beta tablets, and there is no registration. There is no registration for 405-foot packaging products yet.
“This is wrongly called beauty powder. Then, we have a 20-foot container that has expired, has expired margarine products. We have another 20-foot container that has expired, it has expired margarine products, 60 warrior drones.”
He stressed that the intercepted drones loaded in one of the containers had a tax value of 15.9 billion guilds and lacked the end user certificate from the National Security Adviser Office.
“We also intercepted 53 other different helicopter drones. These drones were intercepted for lack of end user certificates and their on-duty payments are worth N2.1 million. We have 10 professional FM transceiver intercoms. These are communication equipment that were evacuated due to lack of end user certificates.”
Adeniyi warned that the disturbing trend of importing unregulated sexual desire drugs poses serious health risks, including potential cardiovascular complications and harmful drug interactions without proper medical supervision.
According to him, all the programs fall into three different categories, adding that 73.7% of all seizures are unregistered drugs, lack of mandatory national institutions targeting national food and drug management, and control the number and certification of registrations, “This is a direct confirmation of the Nafdac Act, Cap N-1, cap n of the Fedies of Fedies, and that composition is 6. More than half of them.”
He mentioned that the second category is expired food, whose safety profile is compromised, and poses an imminent public health hazard to public health if food registration and regulations are violated and the Pre-Export Inspection Act.
Adeniyi stressed that the third category is the category of controlled equipment, including drone technology and telecommunications equipment imported without end user certificates required by the National Security Adviser Office.
He alerted what he said was a complex pattern of false statements, and importers deliberately classified drugs as general goods or cosmetics.
Adeniyi stressed that there are two containers with this medication, but are hidden by the skin cream to hide it.
He noted that epilepsy seizures showed that importers were diversifying their contraband portfolio, combining medicines, food and control technologies into system shipping.
Adeniyi said this development shows the emergence of organized networks with complex capabilities, rather than the isolated attempts of smuggling that we have had in the past.
However, he said that in terms of inter-agency cooperation, the service is working with key regulators, including but not limited to NAFDAC, the National Drug Enforcement Agency and the Office of National Security Advisors
“This collaboration operates under a memorandum of established understanding and joint operational frameworks that significantly enhance our enforcement capabilities.
“As recorded in our joint operations report in January 2025, the link between unregistered drugs, controlled substances and national security infrastructure continues to present our sovereign multidimensional threat matrix,” he said.
Similarly, Dr. Olakunle Daniel Olaniran, NAFDAC’s director of port inspections, confirmed that some of the seized drugs carried fake registration numbers and posed serious health risks to unsuspecting Nigerians.
He said one of the confiscated products was for industrial use for coal treatment, but fraudulently issued with the NAFDAC registration number initially for another product, the well-known painkiller Tramadol
He said another intercepted product was wrongly sold as a mental health drug, but lacked any legal drug identification.
