{"id":22149,"date":"2024-03-15T12:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/customs-intercepts-cache-of-arms-military-uniform-at-lagos-port\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T12:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:02:31","slug":"customs-intercepts-cache-of-arms-military-uniform-at-lagos-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/customs-intercepts-cache-of-arms-military-uniform-at-lagos-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs intercepts cache of arms, military uniform at Lagos Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has reportedly intercepted a cache of arms and ammunition being smuggled into Nigeria by some criminal elements.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Trust reports that among the items intercepted are military camouflage and some illicit drugs such as Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The arms recovered include automatic single-barrel rifles and pump action guns.<\/p>\n<p>Although details of the interception are still sketchy as at press time, it was learnt that the arms were recovered during an inspection of consignments imported into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Customs Service had in 2023, seized 31 arms of various types at Tin-Can and Multi-Purpose Terminals, PTML ports in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>About two suspects were arrested after the interception.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming amid the deteriorating security crisis that has halted economic activities in many parts of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Customs intercepts cache of arms, military uniform at Lagos Port<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has reportedly intercepted a cache of arms and ammunition being smuggled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642,12343,384,15],"tags":[644,164,387,180,914],"class_list":["post-22149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customs","category-lagos-port","category-metro","category-news","tag-customs","tag-lagos","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-port"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}