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Security agencies have stepped up their watch over Nigeria's seaports and borders following intelligence reports of plans to smuggle arms into the country on board a ship from Europe, 'The Guardian' reported on Monday.
The ship, which is said to contain more than 5,000 rifles as well as missiles and other explosives, berthed off the coast of Abidjan on 30 January so that the smugglers could investigate ways of entering Nigeria, according to the daily.
'The Guardian' reported that the Nigerian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) denied knowing the identity of the importers of the weapons and how they intended to use them, but suspected that the arms might be used by militant ethnic groups to cause trouble.
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