Hyderabad, March 24 -- The city police have arrested a Nigerian drug peddler and seized seven grams of cocaine and two mobile phones from him.

On credible information, the Commissioner's Task Force, Central Zone Team, along with Kachiguda Police, arrested a Nigerian drug peddler, Ngwuchukwu Godwin Ifeanyi (34), a resident of Kharghar, Mumbai, near D-Mart Road, Kachiguda, on Sunday when he was waiting to deliver seven grams of cocaine to a customer, a police statement said on Monday.

According to the police, Godwin, a native of Enugu State, Nigeria, came to India in 2015 on a student visa and joined a pharmacy college in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. However, after his visa expired in 2016, he continued to stay illegally in India. Influenced b...