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Police in Lagos uncover arms cache

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    Lagos police have unearthed a cache of arms and ammunitions, including two pump-action rifles, one sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun and 114 live cartridges behind the city’s National Stadium, police Public Relations Officer Fabulous Enyaosah said.

    ‘The Guardian’ newspaper reported Enyaosah as saying on Monday that it was likely that the arms belonged to the Oodua People’s Congress, a militant Yoruba interest group that was involved recently in bitter clashes with Ijaw youths in a Lagos slum.

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