BREAKING: Customs Intercepts Arms, Military Uniform At Lagos Port, Details Emerge

• The Nigeria Customs Service has busted the activities of some criminal elements at the Lagos seaport
• The Tin-Can Island command intercepted some arms and ammunition allegedly being smuggled into the country on Friday
• Other items recovered from the criminal gang were military camouflage and illicit narcotics like colorado

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.

Lagos state - On Friday, March 15, the Tin-Can Island command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) intercepted a cache of arms and ammunition allegedly being smuggled into the country by some criminal gangs.

Arms, other items recovered by Customs

As reported by Daily Trust, among the items intercepted are military camouflage and illicit drugs such as colorado.

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The arms recovered include automatic single-barrel rifles and pump action guns.

Although details of the interception are still sketchy as at press time, sources disclosed to Channels Television that the arms were recovered during an inspection of consignments imported into the country.

At the time of filing this report, Legit.ng could not ascertain if any arrest had been made.

Interestingly, the interception came barely eight months after Customs seized 31 arms of various types at Tin-Can and Multi-Purpose Terminals (PTML) ports in Lagos.

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Mr Adewale Adeniyi, told journalists then that two suspects were arrested in connection with the seizure.

Meanwhile, the importers of used cars across Nigeria adjusted their prices following the volatile exchange rates in the country and the incessant adjustments of FX for cargo clearance by the Customs.

Nigeria opens land, air borders with Niger Republic

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In another development, Legit.ng reported that President Bola Tinubu ordered the reopening of Nigeria's land and air borders with Niger Republic Republic and lifted other sanctions against the country with immediate effect.

Tinubu's action was in line with the conclusion reached at the last meeting of the authority of heads of state and government of ECOWAS meeting in Abuja on February 24.

At the extraordinary summit of the regional bloc, ECOWAS agreed that economic sanctions on the Republic of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea should be suspended.

Source: Legit.ng