At Lagos airport last month, Nigerian authorities detained a 40-year-old Mexican national whose phone held photographs that unraveled an industrial methamphetamine operation buried in the forests of Ebonyi state. The arrest is the third of its kind in four months, each linked to Mexican nationals, each pointing toward a deliberate and organized effort to transplant drug production into West African terrain. Unlike cocaine or heroin, methamphetamine requires no particular soil or climate — only chemicals, expertise, and distance from scrutiny — and Nigeria's forests, it appears, are being audit
Nigeria arrests Mexican drug kingpin over industrial meth lab discovery
Four Nigerians were arrested in connection with one of the suspected laboratories; at least one Nigerian was identified assisting in chemical removal operations.