hoodlums
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Some suspected hoodlums from Obbo-Aiyegunle in Kwara State on Tuesday attacked Ilejemeje Local Government Secretariat and some residents of the town over a land dispute. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the alleged hoodlums were heavily armed and fired gunshot to scare residents. The local government secretariat windows and doors were vandalised as…
10 Apr
The Lagos State Police Command has expressed worries over the new wave of crime in the state in which hoodlums would brazenly accost innocent commuters and forcefully seize their handsets for an exchange with money.
7 Apr
Harassment by hoodlums appears to be taking a new dimension in Lagos these days.
1 Apr
Hoodlums broke into a government warehouse where fuel subsidy palliatives are kept in the Bayan Kara area of Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State capital on Saturday night and made away with food items. This was confirmed by the chairman of the Bayan Kara Market Food Vendors Association, Muhammadu Gwadangwaji. Gwadangwaji said the hoodlums, mostly youth, even…
29 Mar
There was tension yesterday, in Anambra, as a gang of hoodlums set ablaze the Neni Police station and the headquarters of the Anaocha Local Council of the state.
28 Mar
Hoodlums attacked and set on fire the Neni Divisional Police station in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was gathered that the hoodlums numbering about 30 stormed the area at about 2am on Thursday and destroyed several buildings. READ ALSO: First phase of Lagos-Calabar Highway to be completed in three years – FG…
4 Mar
• NEMA denies attack on Abuja facility • Police arrest 15 suspected warehouse vandals in FCT • Shettima: Protest against hardship in a responsible manner The reality of Nigeria’s grim food insecurity exacerbated by rising food cost became apparent yesterday when hoodlums in Abuja went on a looting spree, carting away food items from public and private facilities.…
3 Mar
Hoodlums broke into a government warehouse in Gwagwa town, Abuja, on Sunday, and made away with stored food items.
29 Feb
Lagos State government has cautioned allottees of housing estates against hosting tenants that pose a threat to the security of the estates.
21 Feb
Hoodlums have attacked and murdered a 27-year-old man along a secluded street at Isokan Estate, behind Premier Grammar School, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
8 Feb
Lagos State Truck and Cargo Committee (LASTCOC), yesterday, decried continued attacks on truck drivers and their assistants (motor boys) by hoodlums and extortionists along the Tincan port area of Lagos State.
6 Feb
In a telltale sign of the trying times, hundreds of Minna residents in Niger State, trooped out en masse to protest the hardship in Nigeria caused by the rising cost of living and the economic downturn.
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Landmark Group said the Lagos State government is yet to consult it on the Lagos-Calabar coastal road construction and beach sand filling. Landmark made this disclosure in a statement on Thursday and said the issue of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road passing through Landmark Beach remains a topic of wide-reaching discourse. The Group said it wants…
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The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj-Gen. Hassan Dada, has expressed concern about the high number of weapons in unauthorized hands in Nigeria.
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The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has secured an exparte injunction restraining further action on his purported suspension as member of the party. In an exparte motion granted by Federal high Court in Kano, Wednesday, Justice A. U Liman ordered the purported suspension of Ganduje as member of the…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday declared former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello wanted. The EFCC is prosecuting Bello over an allege money laundering of N80.2billion. The former governor was absent in court earlier today when the EFCC arraigned him. Bello’s arraignment is coming on the heels of a warrant of arrest…