{"id":158704,"date":"2025-04-06T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:30:10","slug":"police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger","title":{"rendered":"Police arrests 55 suspects over thuggery, restiveness, recover weapons in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Niger State Police Command has arrested a total of 55 suspects over alleged resurgence of thuggery and youth restiveness in Minna metropolis immediately after the Sallah celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun in a statement said following recent resurgence of thuggery and restiveness, the Command re-strategized and carried out sting operations in some locations in the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that on 4th April, 2025 at about 2am, a total 19 suspects, including two for aimed robbery were nabbed during sting operations led by Area Commander Minna within Angwan-Daji and its environs.<\/p>\n<p>Suspects arrested include:<\/p>\n<p>Habibu Ibrahim 22yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Aminu Umar 17yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Dahiru Abdullahi 17yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Abba Alhassan a.k.a Mulala 22yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Shamsudeen Ibrahim 24yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Abubakar Bawa 20yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Abdul Talib Siri-siri 20yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Umar Adam 17yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Mustaphaa Haruna 25yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Sadiq Salamu 21yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Abdullahi Sabo 21yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Sadiq Yakubu 17yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Bashir Nuhu 20yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Shaibu Bawa 18yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Mohammed Mustapha 20yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Umar Haruna 17yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Uzaifa Bello 18yrs, and two others for armed robbery<\/p>\n<p>-Ismaila Abubakar 20yrs<\/p>\n<p>-Abdulrahman Adamu 21yrs<\/p>\n<p>According to him, earlier on 3rd April, 2025 at about 2.30am, 23 suspects were arrested at a hotel within Tunga with shisha smoking apparatus and other illicit drugs and cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the PPRO disclosed that thirteen others were arrested within the community with dangerous weapons.<\/p>\n<p>However, Abiodun revealed that monitoring and raid of criminal hideout continues, while normalcy has been restored in the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>All suspects are under investigation in SCID Minna.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Niger State Police Command has arrested a total of 55 suspects over alleged resurgence of thuggery and youth restiveness in Minna metropolis immediately after the Sallah celebrations. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun in a statement said following recent resurgence of thuggery and restiveness, the Command re-strategized and carried out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":158703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[470,254,165],"class_list":["post-158704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police arrests 55 suspects over thuggery, restiveness, recover weapons in Niger - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Niger State Police Command has arrested a total of 55 suspects over alleged resurgence of thuggery and youth restiveness ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police arrests 55 suspects over thuggery, restiveness, recover weapons in Niger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Niger State Police Command has arrested a total of 55 suspects over alleged resurgence of thuggery and youth restiveness ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-06T19:58:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-07T10:30:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1743960833.588381.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police arrests 55 suspects over thuggery, restiveness, recover weapons in Niger\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-06T19:58:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-07T10:30:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger\"},\"wordCount\":254,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1743960833.588381.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Niger\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-arrests-55-suspects-over-thuggery-restiveness-recover-weapons-in-niger\",\"name\":\"Police arrests 55 suspects over thuggery, restiveness, recover weapons in Niger - 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