In a significant victory against transnational wildlife crime, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced the arrest of a suspected high-level Chinese wildlife trafficker in Lagos. Acting on intelligence provided by the Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC), NCS carried out the arrest on 19 February 2025. This operation represents a critical disruption to organised wildlife crime networks operating between Nigeria and Asia. The arrest was linked to a warehouse raid in Ogun, Nigeria that led to a major pangolin scale seizure in August 2024, following intelligence provided by the WJC. NCS officers initially seized 31 bags of pangolin scales on 8 August, with a follow-up search on 10 August uncovering an additional 148 bags, bringing the total to 7.2 tonnes - the largest-ever WJC-supported seizure. Intelligence identified the suspected owner of the stockpile as a high-level Chinese wildlife trafficker. With WJC support, Nigerian authorities tracked the suspect, leading to his arrest in Lagos six months later.