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Peru drug law enforcement yesterday seized 1,417 kilos of cocaine with logos that bear a photo of Barcelona star Lionel Messi as well as his name, found wrapped in containers of squid filets and destined for Belgium. The drugs were worth an estimated $85 million in street value, Peru officials said in a news release. Many packages of the drugs bore the likeness of Messi and his name, while the rest were wrapped in black packaging with a logo saying “King” with a likeness of the king of Spain. A spokesperson for the Peruvian National Police’s Anti-drugs Office (Dirandro) said that no one has been arrested or detained yet. “Most of the 1,288 packages of drugs were camouflaged as squid filets and had a label that said ‘Messi’ along with a picture of the Argentina player Lionel Messi wearing the shirt of the Spanish club Barcelona,” the news release said. The logos are used to guarantee the purity of the drugs by the gangs who traffic them, the official said, as well as guara...

The Lagos High Court yesterday gives judgement to Two of the four men tried for the 2012 murder of a general’s daughter, Cynthia Osokogu, Okwumo Echezona Nwabufo and his nephew  Olisaeloka Ezike are to die by hanging. Justice Olabisi A . kinlade found them guilty of drugging, chaining and strangling Osokogu, who was a Nasarawa State University post-graduate student, to death at Cosmilla Hotel, Festac Town, Lagos, on July 22, 2012. Orji Osita, 37, and Ezike Nonso, 29, were discharged and acquitted of the charge of recklessness, negligence and possession of stolen goods. Osita, a pharmacist, had been accused of supplying Nwabufo with Rophynol, a sedative which was allegedly used on the deceased, without a prescription. While Nonso was accused of buying her stolen Blackberry phones from Ezike. Nwabufo, 37, Ezike, 27, Osita and Nonso were arraigned on February 8, 2013, on a six-count charge of conspiracy, murder, stealing, recklessness, negligence and possession of s...