By Kamsi Anayo with Agency report
The Seychelles Supreme Court has remanded a Nigerian woman for conspiracy to import and traffic an illicit drug.
According to the Seychelles news agency on Monday, the 52-year-old woman is being detained after she was arrested at the Seychelles International Airport on Thursday on her arrival on an Ethiopian Airline flight.
The arrest of the woman comes from a search, discovery, and seizure of 250 grammes of what is suspected to be cocaine.
The Seychelles’ archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, has a zero-tolerance policy towards the trafficking and importation of illegal drugs. The country imposes is a maximum sentence of life in imprisonment if found guilty.
