10 October 2013 :

a Ho Chi Minh City court sentenced a Nigerian man to death for smuggling more than 3.4 kilograms of methamphetamine from Thailand into Vietnam in 2012. Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu has smuggled a large quantity of drugs and the crime is considered “extremely serious”, the court said. Ikechukwu was arrested on June 23, 2012 when he was entering Vietnam through the Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported.