This is contained in a statement signed by the commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, and made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Ibadan.
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This was disclosed after he received the new Controller of Correctional Service, Lagos, Comp Francis Adebisi, and his entourage, at the Police Command headquarters, Ikeja the state capital.
Our correspondent recalls that 1,884 inmates were freed when the gunmen struck the Correctional Centre and the Imo State Police Command headquarters in Owerri, respectively.
According to a statement by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mariam Yusuf, the suspects were arrested while attempting to dispose of a vehicle which they had snatched at gunpoint along Tudun Wada axis of Niger State.
The event took place at Aso Villa in Abuja.
“We arrested 50 illegally armed herdsmen and realised that some of them are into cattle rustling and kidnapping,’’ Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Audi, said on Wednesday in Abuja
Spokesperson for the command, SP Yemisi Opalola, said this on Wednesday while giving update on the kidnapping incident to newsmen in Osogbo.
Osinbajo gave the task when he decorated the acting Inspector-General of Police with his new rank at the conference room of the Vice President’s office, State House, Abuja on Wednesday.
In a statement jointly signed by its Secretary-General, Dr. Paschal Mbanefo, and Coordinator, Ngozi Odumuko, the group commended the prompt directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to all security and intelligence agencies to arrest and prosecute the attackers, as well as the restraint displayed by the acting Controller-General of Corrections, John Mrabure, in his preliminary report on the incident.
Abaribe, who also condemned the frightening surge of violence in the South East, particularly the attack on the Correctional centres in Imo, Ebonyi and Enugu States, spoke in a statement released by his Media Adviser, Uchenna Awom, on Wednesday.
The governor made the pledge in Bauchi during the swearing-in ceremony of the newly appointed acting Chief Judge (Grand Kadi) of Bauchi State Sharia Court, Mohammed Abubakar.
Coordinator of OPC in Oyo State, Chief Rotimi Olumo, made the call in Ibadan on Wednesday.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Chairman of CAN, Rev. Joseph Hayab, who made the appeal in a statement on Wednesday in Kaduna, also commended the appointment.
The NBA Chairman in Enugu, Jude Ezegwui, made the call on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu.
Buba Wakawa, the NDLEA Commander in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin that the suspects were arrested with 1,330 kg of substance suspected to be cannabis sativa.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the strike was in compliance with directives issued by the national body of JUSUN over non-implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary by state governments
This was contained in a statement signed by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief Anthony Agbazuere, on Tuesday in Umuahia
While the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in Kaduna, Samuel Aruwan, stated that eight people were killed during separate attacks in the area on Tuesday, authorities in the church confirmed the attack to Channels Television