The state Police Commissioner, Ede Ayuba, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the command headquarters in Lokoja, said he got the report at about 2am.
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Ayuba, while parading the suspects at the headquarters in Lokoja, said the command had adopted comprehensive crime prevention and control strategies in recent times to combat criminality in the state.
The meetings, which held on Saturday simultaneously, took place across over 200 local government areas of Yoruba speaking states, including some LGAs in Kwara, Kogi, Edo and Delta States.
The rain that started from Friday night till the early hours of Saturday, also submerged Gwagwalada bridge and a hotel.
Paulina Okere, the 45-year-old indigene of Kogi State, an Igbira woman from Nagazi village in Adavi Local Government Area, was alleged to be operating the fake orphanage.
APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, said this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday.
Arotile told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lokoja, Kogi State on Wednesday that he was shocked to receive the news of her death few hours later.
The governor also has sworn-in Justice Bayo Olowosegun as the acting President of the state Customary Court of Appeal following the vacuum created by the death of the immediate past President, Justice Ibrahim Atadoga, on June 22.
Its Managing Director, George Moghalu, gave the warning in Lokoja, Kogi State while reacting to the recent boat mishaps in Lagos and Benue States in which many people lost their lives.
Onogwu Mohammed, Chief Press Secretary to Bello, confirmed the appointment in a statement issued on Friday in Lokoja.
Ayuba, who gave the order on Wednesday during a visit to the centre to assess the extent of damage, said the perpetrators, believed to be sponsored political thugs, would not go unpunished.
The party said this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Tuesday.
Okpanachi made the call during a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Monday in Abuja.
Ehindero, who was reacting to the June 4 Isanlu robbery, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin, Kwara State on Monday that the election was characterised by terror and hooliganism.
The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Smart Adeyemi (APC Kogi), gave the position when the committee met with officials of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Air Transport Services.
Dr. Folasade Yem-Esan, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, made this known in a statement signed by Olawunmi Ogunmosunle, Director Communication, in her office on Tuesday in Abuja.
A Government statement issued in Lokoja on Monday said the state Deputy Governor, Chief Edward Onoja, presented the cheque covering the amount to the Commissioner of police, Ede Ayuba.
The Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
The command’s spokesman, DSP William Aya, who made the confirmation in a statement in Lokoja on Wednesday, said the suspects were killed in Idah.
Ologbondiyan, in a statement, while reacting to the declaration of lockdown in Kabba Bunu LGA of the state following an alleged index case, said the governor needs to apologise to the people for not allowing for test and providing the desired leadership since the emergence of the pandemic in the country.