Nigeria Customs Service Hands Over Seized Firearms and Ammunition to NCCSALW in Major Security Boost
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), through its Port and Terminal Multi-Services Limited (PTML) Command, has formally handed over a cache of intercepted firearms and ammunition to the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW). The handover, which took place recently in Lagos, underscores ongoing inter-agency collaboration to combat the proliferation of illicit arms and strengthen national security. The seized items, intercepted during vehicle examinations between 2022 and 2025 across 25 separate occasions, included: Five pistols of various makes One Crossman Pump Master rifle 132 rounds of Remington live cartridges 51 rounds of 9mm Luger ammunition Four 9mm magazines 40 rounds of assorted 9mm blank and hollow ammunition 118 empty 9mm shells Comptroller Joe Anani, the Customs Area Controller (CAC) of PTML Command, handed over the items on behalf of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi. “On behalf of the Comptroller-General of Customs, ...