Operatives of the Jigawa State Police Command have arrested a suspected thief, Lawan Sabil, who stole a Honda vehicle from a car stand in Bauchi State. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, September 17, 2023, said the suspect and his two accomplices absconded with the vehicle during a test drive after posing as potential buyers. According to the PPRO, the suspects pleaded to go for a …
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Bauchi State Government has declared Monday, June 27 as a public holiday to enable eligible voters who are yet to register for their Permanent Voters Card to participate in the ongoing registration exercise. In a statement released by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Mukhtar Gidado, it was stated that the state-wide public holiday is to “enable citizens of the state who attained the age of 18 years after the 2019 general elections or lost their …
The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested one Abdulrahman Sulaiman,18, for allegedly killing his elder brother following a heated argument at the Games Village area of Bauchi metropolis. According to neighbours, the suspect allegedly stabbed his brother on Friday March 18, for taking his shorts and wearing them. It was gathered that all efforts by both parents and others to pacify the enraged young man proved difficult as he refused to be pacified. Rather he took a sharp knife and stabbed …
The police authorities in Bauchi State have recovered no fewer than 25 AK-47 rifles and other weapons from criminal elements in the state. While handing over the seized items to the National Center for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons under the Office of the National Security Adviser, the state commissioner of Police, Umar Sanda, said the arms were seized between June 2021 and February 2022 across the state. “On behalf of the Inspector General of Police, …
Bauchi Emirate Council has suspended a lawmaker, Yakubu Shehu Abdullahi, as the traditional title holder of Wakilin Birnin, for disrespecting the Emir of Bauchi, Dr Rilwanu Suleiman Adamu. The suspension which was contained in a three-paragraph letter dated May 16, 2021, and signed by Nasiru Musa Maidala for Secretary of the Emirate, said the member representing Bauchi Federal Constituency in the House of Reps, appeared in Alkebba (a kind of regal robe) and Kandiri (a staff) before the Emir, which …
Suspected cultists have abducted Patience Emmanuel, a 20-year-old Pharmacology student at the Bauchi State University, and informed her father that all they need is her “virginity” and not his money. Narrating his ordeal to newsmen, Mr. Emmanuel Kushi, who is a civil servant, said his daughter whom he described as a well-behaved girl, left his younger brother’s house in Rafin Zurfi in the state on Wednesday, June 24, with the intention of coming to pick up something from his home. However, she never got to …