BREAKING: Nigerian Military Intercepts Arms-Laden Russian Plane Bound for Chad

Report reaching our newsdesk indicates that the Nigerian military has confiscated a Russian plane loaded with dangerous arms and ammunition, bound for neighbouring Chad.

Premium Times reports that the aircraft was intercepted early Saturday at the Aminu Kano International Airport.

It was further learnt that the plane, which was heading for N’djamena, the capital of Chad, landed in Kano at about 2 a.m., Nigerian time.

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 Daily Post

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