Recovered, illicitly acquired, decommissioned and unserviceable firearms burn during a public destruction exercise organised by the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Abuja, Nigeria, July 30, 2026. REUTERS/Marvellous Durowaiye
Recovered, illicitly acquired, decommissioned and unserviceable firearms burn during a public destruction exercise organised by the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Abuja, Nigeria, July 30, 2026. REUTERS/Marvellous Durowaiye
Members of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCOSALW) pour fuel on recovered, illicitly acquired, decommissioned and unserviceable firearms during a public destruction exercise in Abuja, Nigeria, July 30, 2026. REUTERS/ Marvellous Durowaiye
Members of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCOSALW) pour fuel on recovered, illicitly acquired, decommissioned and unserviceable firearms during a public destruction exercise in Abuja, Nigeria, July 30, 2026. REUTERS/ Marvellous Durowaiye
Johnson Kokumo, Director-General of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCOSALW), delivers a speech during a public destruction exercise at the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment in Abuja, Nigeria, July 30, 2026. REUTERS/ Marvellous Durowaiye
Johnson Kokumo, Director-General of the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCOSALW), delivers a speech during a public destruction exercise at the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment in Abuja, Nigeria, July 30, 2026. REUTERS/ Marvellous Durowaiye

Nigeria destroys 2,819 seized illicit arms in security crackdown

July 30th, 2026 | 16:00 PM WORLD Africa 1

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By Camillus Eboh

Nigeria's arms control agency said ​on Thursday it destroyed ‌2,819 illicit, obsolete and decommissioned weapons in a bid to ​curb insecurity fuelled by ​the proliferation of illegal arms.

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