{"id":158893,"date":"2025-04-07T22:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery"},"modified":"2025-04-15T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:04:05","slug":"niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Police arrest eight suspects for conspiracy, theft, thuggery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Niger State Police Command has arrested eight suspects for conspiracy, theft of motorcycles, receiving stolen property, and thuggery in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The command, in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, in Minna, stated that on 3rd April 2025 at about 2:30 pm, following a complaint received, the Crack Squad of the command arrested two suspects. These included Mohammed Usman, 18, from Tunga, Minna, and Mohammed Abdullahi, 22, from Paiko area, who were arrested for conspiracy, theft of motorcycles, and receiving stolen property.<\/p>\n<p>The PRO disclosed, \u201cIt was reported that on 28th March 2025 at about 5 pm, Usman boarded a motorcycle to a hotel around Tunga, near the Old City gate. After alighting, he invited the cyclist to his hotel room, tricked him, took his motorcycle key, and locked him in the room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsman made off with the motorcycle and the key, taking it to Abdullahi in Paiko for sale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abiodun stated that, during the course of the investigation, police detectives took swift action and arrested Abdullahi, who had a pending case of assault related to a gang fight at a mining site in Paiko.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbdullahi led police operatives to a mining site in Paiko where Usman was waiting to collect the proceeds of the crime, and he was arrested too,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Abiodun said two motorcycles were recovered from Abdullahi, who confessed that Usman had brought the motorcycles to him for sale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsman also confessed to the crime and stated that he stole one of the motorcycles from Obajana, Kogi State, at a mining site earlier last month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, six other miscreants were apprehended for thuggery during a sting operation within the Kwangila\/Keteren-Gwari areas of Minna.<\/p>\n<p>These suspects include Mohammad Yusuf, Mohammad Aliyu, Isah Abdullahi, Usman Mohammed, Jibrin Suleiman, and Ibrahim Mohammad.<\/p>\n<p>All suspects are under investigation, and the police are intensifying efforts to reduce criminality in the state.<\/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. The Niger State Police Command has arrested eight suspects for conspiracy, theft of motorcycles, receiving stolen property, and thuggery in the state. The command, in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, in Minna, stated that on 3rd April 2025 at about 2:30 pm, following a complaint received, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":158892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[470,254,165,13886,237],"class_list":["post-158893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-police","tag-theft","tag-thuggery"],"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>Niger: Police arrest eight suspects for conspiracy, theft, thuggery - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Niger State Police Command has arrested eight suspects for conspiracy, theft of motorcycles, receiving stolen proper ...\" \/>\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\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Niger: Police arrest eight suspects for conspiracy, theft, thuggery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Niger State Police Command has arrested eight suspects for conspiracy, theft of motorcycles, receiving stolen proper ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-07T21:18:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-15T11:04:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744052407.29682.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"853\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Niger: Police arrest eight suspects for conspiracy, theft, thuggery\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-07T21:18:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-15T11:04:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery\"},\"wordCount\":332,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744052407.29682.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Niger\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\",\"theft\",\"Thuggery\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/niger-police-arrest-eight-suspects-for-conspiracy-theft-thuggery\",\"name\":\"Niger: Police arrest eight suspects for conspiracy, theft, thuggery - 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