Tag: Criminals
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Police arrest 59 suspected criminals in Kano
The Kano Police Command has announced the arrest of no fewer than 59 suspected armed robbers and drug dealers during the just concluded Eid-Maulud celebrations, according to the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa. In a statement issued in Kano, Haruna-Kiyawa said 35 suspects were arrested for armed robbery, while the remaining 24 were…
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We deal with bandits same way we deal with separatists, criminals – Lai Mohammed
We deal with bandits same way we deal with separatists, criminals – Lai Mohammed
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Obiano to endorse death sentence of guilty criminals
THE Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, on Thursday stated that any death sentence brought to his table would be endorsed. The governor said the decision was one of the measures approved by his government to deter crime and criminality in the state. Stating that since seven years of his reign in the state, he had…
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Obiano bans tinted glasses, reads riot act to criminals in Anambra
Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has read the riot act to criminals following the recent attacks on police and naval formations in the state. In a state broadcast on Sunday in Akwa, he noted that another incident was foiled by security operatives and the security agencies have been directed to resist such attacks going forward.…
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Miyetti Allah reacts to Obiano’s declaration of AK-47 carrying herdsmen as criminals
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has backed Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano for tagging herdsmen with AK 47 as criminals. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Obiano on Tuesday, at the Prof Dora Akunyili Women’s development Center in Awka, said such persons would not be allowed into Anambra State again. The Governor reacted…
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Northern Elders to Governors: FG has failed, secure your states from violent criminals
The Northern Elders Forum on Saturday said Nigerians have lost faith in the power and will of the government to protect them from incessant bandit attacks after more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped at a school in Zamfara on Friday. According to a statement signed by the Forum’s spokesman, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the life of…
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How ongoing membership registration, revalidation exercise is opening doors for killers, criminals to join APC – Aregbesola
Minister for Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, lamented the membership registration and revalidation exercise of All Progressives Congress (APC) has made murderers and rascals join the party. Aregbesola, while addressing his supporters in Ilesha, Osun State after he revalidated his membership in APC at Ward 8 in Ifofin, in Ilesa East Local Government with his wife, said…
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Niger school abduction: Why Nigeria must stop negotiating with criminals, ransom payments – Atiku
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday said Nigeria must stop rewarding criminality, warning that doing so will result in more crimes being perpetrated. In a statement he personally signed, Abubakar lamented the deteriorating state of insecurity in the country, describing the menace as alarming. While noting that a situation whereby children and minors were…
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Police arrest 318 suspected criminals in Yobe
The Police Command in Yobe, on Sunday, said it arrested 318 suspects in connection with various offences in the fourth quarter of 2020. The Command’s Spokesman, ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this in a statement, detailing 2020 achievements recorded in the state. He listed the suspects’ alleged crimes to include homicide, rape, kidnapping, theft, armed robbery…
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Reports of helicopter supplying arms to criminals in Kaduna fake news – Official
Mr Samuel Aruwan, the Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, says reports of helicopter supplying arms to criminals in the state is false. Aruwan said in a statement issued on Friday in Kaduna that the report was a fake news alert. “The attention of the Kaduna State Government has been drawn to…