Customs seizes lion bones, pangolin scales worth N952m – Report

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Apapa Area Command, Lagos, has seized a huge haul of mixed endangered species including lion bones and pangolin scales, lion bones worth N952 million.

The Customs Area Controller of Apapa Command, Comptroller Mohammed Abba-Kura disclosed that the items were being taken out of the country to Vietnam when they were intercepted.

Speaking during a press briefing on Tuesday, Abba-Kura said that the items were contained in a one unit 20 feet container with number CSLU 2362640 heading to Haiphong, Vietnam.

He said that the items, comprising 162 sacks of pangolin scales weighing 8,800kg and 57 sacks of mixed endangered species of various sizes such as ivory/animal horns, lion bones and others were falsely declared as furniture components.