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Police arrest motorcycle thieves

Niger state Police Command has arrested two armed robbers suspected to have been terrorizing the people of Lapai local government in motorcycle theft.

The suspects, Umar Mohammed, 26, of Barkuta village in Bosso council and Abubakar Abdulmumini age 20 of Kpada village in Lapai were accused of terrorising Tegina and Kagara areas of Rafi Local Government Area and dispossessing residents of their valuables.

The event that led to their arrest was when they attacked the house of one Ayuba Bako of Kpada village in Lapai and inflicted injuries on him and made away with his Q-Link motorcycle with registration number QC 326 YBA Abuja valued N220,000.

Mohammed and Abdulmumini was said to have belonged to a six-armed syndicate that were terrorising Lapai and other parts of the state before they found themselves in police net.

One of the suspects, Mohammed confessed that they get their information from insiders which they use to operate. Information they received that they used to attack their victims, he explained.

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“The moment we got information about our victim (Bako), we moved to his house immediately and dispossessed him of his motorcycle. We have been targeting him for sometime now.”

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Abubakar said the suspects confessed to the crime and further revealed that they belong to a six-man armed robbery syndicate making life unbearable for people of Lapai.

Abubakar said in the cause of interrogation the suspects mentioned Gagare, Lere, Bature and Alheri who were at large,as their gang members.

January 16, 2019
Petrol scarcity: PPMC assures motorists of enough products

The Petroleum Products Marketing Company ( PPMC ) on Monday assured motorists that it had in its reserves enough petrol products.

Mr Umar Ajiya, the Managing Director of PPMC, said this in a statement in Abuja.

The statement by Mr Umar Mohammed, the PPMC Spokesman, said there had been a resurgence of queues at filling stations in Lagos and some parts of Abuja after a few days reprieve.

Ajiya explained that the queues sprang-up as a result of malfunctioning of the channel controlling the piping of products from vessels to marketers facility at the Lagos harbour.

“Let me categorically say that the facility had since been repaired and is now operating maximally,” Ajiya said.

According to him, products are being discharged without any hitch and the exercise would continue for a 24-hour operation, to push products into the city and environs.

Ajiya said over 150 trucks had been supplied to Lagos and environs on Monday at 2:00 p.m. and the trend would continue.

He gave the assurances that there was no shortage of products and that everything humanly had been put in place for a smooth supply of products.

NAN

January 22, 2018
Arrest Fayose now, protesters tell EFCC

Scores of protesters under the aegis of “Patriotic Mothers Without Borders”, on Friday stormed the Abuja headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), demanding the “arrest, investigation and prosecution” of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, over what they cited as his involvement in the alleged $2.1 billion arms deal scandal.

Chanting “Fayose must go”, the women numbering about 300 carried various placards and banners with inscriptions like: “EFCC Must Prosecute Fayose”, “Corruption is Corruption”, “Fayose is being tormented by the blood of innocent Nigerians slaughtered by Boko Haram”.

Convener of the group, Nnenna Jideofor, accused Fayose of stealing part of funds meant to equip the military in the fight against terrorism.

She said: “The gravity of the crime does not permit that we wait indefinitely for Fayose to leave office; he would have finished spending his share of the loot by then, and he has all the time to destroy evidence.”

She handed a petition written by the group to Umar Mohammed, Deputy Director Operations, Abuja, and expressed discontent at the ruling of Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Ekiti, ordering the EFCC to de-freeze Fayose’s Zenith Bank account, that the agency earlier froze having been linked to the arms deal scandal.

“As mothers, we beg the EFCC to as a matter of urgency, investigate how much Fayose gave lawmakers of Ekiti State House of Assembly who we believe have lost their souls to an overlord,” she added.

Responding, Mohammed told the protesters that the agency takes all petitions seriously, and that of the women would be given adequate attention.

“We are not selective in our operations, and every petition received is thoroughly investigated, no matter how highly placed the person is,” he said.

January 20, 2017
Police arrest suspected killer of Delta monarch

The police on Tuesday said it had arrested one of the suspected killers of a traditional ruler in Delta State, Obi of Ubulu-Uku, Edward Akaeze Ofulue III.

The spokesman of the state police command, Don Awunah, who presented the suspect and others to journalists, said the suspect, Umar Mohammed aka “small” was arrested by a team of special anti-kidnapping operatives at Abraka, Delta, on July 19.

He said the suspect was one of the wanted kidnappers responsible for the murder of the monarch along Obior/Igbado link road in Delta.

Awunah said one of the victims who escaped from the kidnappers identified Mohammed as one of the suspects.

“The suspect has confessed to be a member of the kidnapping gang that kidnapped and killed the monarch, “the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted the police spokesman as saying on Tuesday.

The spokesman said efforts have been intensified to arrest other members of the gang who are still at large.

August 23, 2016