Nigeria: Abuja Is New Ivory Trade Route

6 October 2015

In the last one month, two travellers from Nigeria were arrested at Hong Kong International Airport with over 50kg of suspected cut ivory stashed inside their pockets of a tailor-made vest and underpants.

One of them, a 26-year-old man, was intercepted as he arrived the city from Abuja via Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

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