A yet-to-be identified Nigerian pilgrim has landed in trouble in Saudi Arabia for taking kolanuts to the holy land.
The pilgrim, it was learnt, was caught with 10 kolanuts on Monday afternoon.
The pilgrim was said to have been fined 10,000 Saudi Riyals, amounting to 1000 Riyals per kolanut.
A source who spoke with the acting Ambassador of Nigeria in Saudi Arabia Monday afternoon confirmed the development, saying the Saudi authorities viewed the importation of kolanuts into the Kingdom as illegal.
As at the time of filing this report, officials of the Nigerian Consulate in Jeddah were still pleading for the pilgrim.
Our correspondent gathered that under Saudi law, anyone caught with narcotic drugs will face the death penalty.



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Yes! Kolanut is categorized as narcotic drugs in Saudi Arabia

See as gworo put this man for trouble. Abeg make dem temper justice with mercy

Lilimax:
Yes! Kolanut is categorized as narcotic drugs in Saudi Arabia

See as gworo put this man for trouble. Abeg make dem temper justice with mercy

ordinary kolanut again? Didn't they ok the man at the airport? That person must be an elder, they can't do without kolanut now

I hope they understand that its drug as well

So in other words, chopping of kolanut for there is an abomination? Or carrying kolanut enter the country?
Elaborate pls

I guess the idìotic Saudi regime that banned kola-nuts is either too stupìd, or too ignorant to know that the caffeind in kola is enssentially the same as the caffeine in cocacola or coffee. Or perhaps they are just being racist towards Africans as they have always done. How else can you explain why taking caffeine the African way through kola nut is banned, but taking it the western way through a bottle of coke or a cup of coffee is allowed?

It is not the Arabs that I blame, it is the stupìd Nigerian man that spends badly needed dollars to visit a country where the word for a black man and a slave are synonyms.

This is the kind of topic that should be on the front page as it concerns the welfare of a Nigerian in a foreign land instead of the trashy trash about big butt and birthdays that we see.