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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized nine 40-ft containers laden with rifles, live ammunition and hard drugs at the Port Harcourt Area II Command in Onne with a duty-paid value of N13.9 billion.

The Nigeria Customs Service has seized nine 40-ft containers laden with rifles, live ammunition and hard drugs at the Port Harcourt Area II Command in Onne with a duty-paid value of N13.9 billion.

He said the officers, while inspecting a suspicious 1×40-foot container with registration number MAEU165396 from Turkey, found it contained 844 rifles and 112,500 rounds of live ammunition. “These containers had registration numbers TCKU6879285, CMAU5985012, CMAU7515384, CMAU4297020, SEKU5488437, BMOU4363156, MRKU4616024, and MRSU3068928.”

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