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Two Police Officers, Nasarawa Gov's Aide, Others Arrested for Vandalising Railway Facilities


Igbawase Ukumba in Lafia
The Special Adviser to the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, on Infrastructure, Yusuf Abubakar Musa, has been arrested by the state Police Command for allegedly vandalising Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) facilities.
Others arrested include two police officers and one operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), among others.
The state Commissioner of Police, Bola Longe, yesterday paraded the arrested Special Adviser alongside 16 other suspected vandals at the state command headquarters in Lafia.
This was even as the police command equally paraded eight suspected armed robbers, 37 kidnapers, and recovered five live ammunition, 12 motorcycles, three vehicles and N760,000 from the suspects during the operations. ....

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Boko Haram: Visitors barred from federal secretariat, hoodlums kill cop


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Olalekan Adetayo and Solomon Odeniyi
Published 8 May 2021
Olalekan Adetayo and Solomon Odeniyi
Published 8 May 2021
Amid fear of an imminent Boko Haram attack in the Federal Capital Territory, visitors were barred from entering the Federal Secretariat Complex, Phase I located in the Three Arms Zones, Abuja.
One of our correspondents, who monitored events in front of one of the gates for about 30 minutes on Friday, observed that men of the Nigerian Legion as well as the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps were seen ensuring that only civil servants with identification cards were granted access onto the premises. ....

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MASARI'S DOGS OF WAR | THISDAYLIVE


Masari’s resort to the recruitment of dogs to contain banditry is bewildering, writes Tunde Olusunle
Aminu Bello Masari, governor of Katsina State is a consummate reader of the national mood. Masari by the way, was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007.
Accentuated perhaps by the murderous humidity preceding the decisive advent of the rainy season, Nigeria’s sociopolitical pulse has been at an all-time high in recent days and weeks. And Masari has been working hard to mitigate this nationwide discomfiture.
An otherwise quiet weekend was disrupted by news of the incineration of the country home of Hope Uzodinma, the governor of Imo State, on Saturday April 24, 2021. That unfortunate incident turned out to be a sad precursor to a legion of calamities, from the North to the South, and from the West to the East of Nigeria, beginning from the first working day of the new week. ....

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