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Smugglers, Customs Officers Turn Residential Towns To Battlefield In Southwest Nigeria

Like troubled grasses on an elephant pathway, residents of communities close to Nigeria’s border crossing points with the Republic of Benin are often victims of bloody clashes between Customs officers and smugglers. The smugglers import foreign parboiled rice, groundnut oil, and other contraband goods from Benin into Nigeria, usually through illegal routes. Operatives of the […]