{"id":181724,"date":"2024-10-03T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-nscdc-arrests-gunrunner-seizes-ammunition-official\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T00:10:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:10:14","slug":"nigeria-nscdc-arrests-gunrunner-seizes-ammunition-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-nscdc-arrests-gunrunner-seizes-ammunition-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: NSCDC Arrests Gunrunner, Seizes Ammunition &#8211; Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;Our operatives discovered that they were carrying a bag loaded with 7.62 x 39mm ammunition numbering 440, with 20 empty AK magazines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/regional\/nwest\/737961-notorious-bandit-kachalla-sharme-others-killed-in-kaduna.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaduna<\/a><\/strong> State Command, said its operatives have detained a suspected gunrunner with 440 live ammunition and seven illegal miners in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The State Commandant, Nuhu Muhammadu, made the disclosure at a press briefing on Wednesday in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Mr Muhammadu said, &#8220;On Tuesday, our men who were on patrol around&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410020693.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our operatives discovered that they were carrying a bag loaded with 7.62 x 39mm ammunition numbering 440, with 20 empty AK magazines.&#8221; The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kaduna State Command, said its operatives have detained a suspected gunrunner with 440 live ammunition and seven illegal miners in the state. The State Commandant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,3160,7845,18017,257,4687,393,29352,5092,13889,254],"class_list":["post-181724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ammunition","tag-arrests","tag-gunrunner","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nscdc","tag-official","tag-seizes","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}