{"id":68466,"date":"2025-06-18T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68466"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:44:45","slug":"customs-intercepts-1433-cartridges-five-guns-in-ogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/18\/customs-intercepts-1433-cartridges-five-guns-in-ogun\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs Intercepts 1,433 Cartridges, Five Guns in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun 1 Area Command, has intercepted 1,433 rounds of live cartridges and five Dane guns at various locations across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Area Comptroller Godwin Otunla disclosed this during the handover of the seized arms to the Nigeria Police on Wednesday in Idiroko.<\/p>\n<p>He said the operation was part of intensified surveillance, strategic intelligence, and inter-agency collaboration aimed at safeguarding national security.<\/p>\n<p>Otunla also revealed the interception of 1,037 parcels of cannabis sativa, 13,125 litres of PMS, and other contraband, with a total duty-paid value of N344.85 million.<\/p>\n<p>He noted a revenue increase from N10.6 million in April to N42.2 million in May 2025 under the leadership of Comptroller-General Bashir Adeniyi.<\/p>\n<p>The seizures were made across several flashpoints, including Lusada, Ado-Odo, Imeko, Idiroko, and Ipokia.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the items, Idiroko Area Police Commander, Mr. Bukoye Oye, commended the Customs for their efforts and assured that investigations would follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun 1 Area Command, has intercepted 1,433 rounds of live cartridges and five Dane guns at various locations across the state. Area Comptroller Godwin Otunla disclosed this during the handover of the seized arms to the Nigeria Police on Wednesday in Idiroko. He said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68468,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68466\/revisions\/68468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}