Environment Minister hands over boxes of snakes, spiders to University of Uyo for reaseach

THREE boxes containing poisonous snakes, spiders, millipedes and other reptiles smuggled into Nigeria from Cameroon were handed over to the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, University of Uyo by the Minister of State for Environment , Ibrahim Usman Jubri on Friday.
The Minster said while handing of the reptiles that the importers wanted to use Nigeria as a transit point to smuggle the item whose destination as seen in the boxes they were loaded as Rotterdam, Luxemburg as against Asia as originally suspected.