Nigerian police have dismantled a major methamphetamine lab, seizing an estimated $363 million in drugs and chemicals in the country’s largest ever seizure of its kind. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) announced late on Wednesday that coordinated raids on a farm in Ogun state and linked properties in Lagos state, both in southwest Nigeria, uncovered an industrial-scale hidden facility being used to make drugs. More than 10 suspects were arrested at the scene, including three Mexican nationals. The operation yielded 2.4 tonnes of methamphetamine and associated chemical materials, police said. NDLEA chief Mohamed Buba Marwa said the operation, carried out over 48 hours after months of intelligence work, exposed a network importing foreign "technical expertise" to produce drugs locally. Seven suspects, including three Mexicans described as meth "cooks", were arrested at the farm used as a lab in Ogun state's Abidagba forest. The alleged mastermind, Anochili Innocent, was detained at his Lagos residence. Follow-up operations brought the total number of arrests to 10, the agency confirmed.The sheer scale of the haul, representing millions of street doses, indicates a significant shift by drug cartels towards establishing production bases within Nigeria.This crackdown highlights Nigeria's increasing prominence as both a transit point and manufacturing hub in the global illicit drug trade. The illegal trade is flourishing across Nigeria and West Africa, where porous borders facilitate cartels in expanding logistics networks and forging links with Latin American trafficking groups.Mr Marwa affirmed the agency's commitment to intensifying its efforts against both local and transnational drug networks nationwide.