A Nigerian businessman is accused of possessing and smuggling in more than 1.5Kgs of methamphetamine, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

IM, 42, confessed before the prosecution of possessing 1.587Kgs of methamphetamine in his luggage. He also said that he intended to hand the drugs over to a person in the UAE against a sum of money that would have been paid to him once he was back in his home country.