{"id":2133,"date":"2017-05-25T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2017-05-25T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T22:08:16","slug":"illegal-arms-shipment-imported-from-turkey-seized-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/25\/illegal-arms-shipment-imported-from-turkey-seized-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"ILLEGAL ARMS SHIPMENT IMPORTED FROM TURKEY SEIZED IN NIGERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/NIGERIA-WEAPONS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2134\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/NIGERIA-WEAPONS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/NIGERIA-WEAPONS.jpg 990w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/NIGERIA-WEAPONS-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/NIGERIA-WEAPONS-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/NIGERIA-WEAPONS-560x283.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/NIGERIA-WEAPONS-260x131.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/NIGERIA-WEAPONS-160x81.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Turkish Minute<\/p>\n<p>An illegal arms shipment originating in Turkey and containing 440 pump action rifles was seized on Monday in Lagos, Nigeria, according to Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian government told AFP on Wednesday it had intercepted an illegal cache of arms at the port in Lagos, five months after a similar seizure, when customs officers had stopped a truck carrying 661 illegal pump action rifles after they had been cleared at the port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing intelligence reports, our operatives on Monday inspected a 40-foot container at the Tin Can port in Apapa, Lagos, and found 440 pieces of assorted pump action rifles and other accessories of the guns,\u201d said spokesman Joseph Attah, adding that the consignment was covered with plaster of Paris to avoid detection. Attah said an investigation was under way to determined the intended recipient of the illegal shipment and that one suspect had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.turkishminute.com\/2017\/05\/24\/illegal-arms-shipment-imported-from-turkey-seized-in-nigeria\/?utm_content=buffere8792&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Turkish Minute An illegal arms shipment originating in Turkey and containing 440 pump action rifles was seized on Monday in Lagos, Nigeria, according to Agence France-Presse. The Nigerian government told AFP on Wednesday it had intercepted an illegal cache of arms at the port in Lagos, five months after a similar seizure, when customs&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/25\/illegal-arms-shipment-imported-from-turkey-seized-in-nigeria\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ILLEGAL ARMS SHIPMENT IMPORTED FROM TURKEY SEIZED IN NIGERIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1527,1528,1237,90],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-joseph-attah","tag-lagos","tag-nigeria","tag-turkey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}