Old video with which the Nigerian customs officials intercepted weapons smuggled in April 2025

Nigeria has associated with a high degree of uncertainty, including municipal clashes and bandits that were associated with the spread of weapons that were smuggled into the country. In a video circulating on social media, ammunition from 100 containers shows that were intercepted by Nigeria Customs Service in Onne Port in April 2025. However, the claim is misleading. The video was recorded in June 2024 when the authorities confiscated a single container that was filled with rifles and ammunition.

“The customs and other security authorities in the port of Onne seized 100 containers with imported demanding ammunitions (sic)“, Reads an X -Post that was published on April 14, 2025.

Post was published again more than 800 times.

Various types of firearms can be displayed on the floor in the video.

Voices can be heard in the background, mention the numbers and carry out a kind of calculation, possibly to determine the number of firearms.

“Oh boy, don't be a size. Onne Don Shake, Onne trembles (sic) “, Says a voice towards the end of the 51-second clip.

The port of Onne is located in Nigeria Rivers State.

Screenshot of the misleading post, which was recorded on April 28, 2025

The video was published elsewhere on Facebook, Instagram and X in a similar context.

The Nigeria Customs Service is a border security authority that facilitates international trade, against which laws are against difficulties and imposes tasks and tariffs.

According to the national center for the control of small weapons and light weapons, the circulation of small weapons has contributed to the increased rate of kidnapping and incessions in Nigeria (archived here).

While the video shows weapons that are confiscated by the customs officials Nigeria, the post misleading the event as the youngest and transmits the size of the seizure.

2024 weapon attack

AFP Factcheck carried out a reverse image search for keyframes from the video and the results showed that it was carried out last year.

The clip was published on June 25, 2024 on the Facebook account of the Port Harcourt Office of Local Sender Classic FM (archived here).

“Large ammunition cache, supposedly confiscated in a bound terminal in the port of Onne, Rivers State,” says the caption.

The same firearms and ammunition appear in both videos.

At that time the clip was also published by other local media (archived here).

Other search queries led to another video that was published on July 6, 2024 on the official Facebook account of the Nigeria Customs Service and unveiled the content of the confiscated container (archived here).

In the video, Adewale said Adeniyi, the general compromise compromise -General, a container was given and examined on June 21, 2024 in the port of Onne.

“The suspect container was subjected to a thorough physical examination. The result resulted in the following alarming content: 844 units of various rifles, 112,500 units of living ammunition,” said Adeniyi.

He also noticed that the arms were hidden with different objects, including doors, furniture, leather bags and sanitary equipment.

Other Nigerian news agencies also reported that the weapons were found in a container, and not 100, as in the latest online posts (archived here).

In February 2025, customs officials presented 1,599 various firearms and 2,298 cartridges that were smuggled to Nigeria to the office of national security advisor (Archived here).