The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seized 12 shipments of cocaine at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu this past Saturday.
The haul, comprising 797 cocaine pellets, weighed in at 17.6 kilograms.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi disclosed on Sunday from Abuja that 44-year-old businessman Augustine Emeka was apprehended in relation to the seized narcotics.
Emeka, who purports to be a copper wire merchant, was detained upon his arrival from Douala, Cameroon via Addis Ababa aboard an Ethiopian Airline flight.
In a statement to the authorities, Emeka confessed that the cocaine was intended for distribution to a dozen recipients within Nigeria, Babafemi revealed.
In a related development, NDLEA officials captured Prince Ifeanyi, a suspect on the run, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja on Friday.
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Ifeanyi had been evading capture since September 8, after a 20-kilogram consignment of Indian hemp destined for the UK and linked to him was intercepted at the airport.
On December 4, at the Ebute-Ero Jetty on Lagos Island, NDLEA operatives arrested 45-year-old Beninoise national Jamila Fatiu.
Fatiu was found in possession of 398 bottles of codeine cough syrup while en route to the Seme border by boat.