Gaddafi in diplomatic row over airport guns

Nigerian authorities prevented dozens of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s heavily armed bodyguards from entering the country with weapons in a dispute that lasted hours and saw Gaddafi storm away from the airport on foot.

Gaddafi in diplomatic row over airport guns

Nigerian authorities prevented dozens of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s heavily armed bodyguards from entering the country with weapons in a dispute that lasted hours and saw Gaddafi storm away from the airport on foot.

He arrived in Abuja today for an African Union summit with an entourage of more than 200 bodyguards who insisted on taking their weapons into the city, Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode said.

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