{"id":164764,"date":"2025-05-29T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect"},"modified":"2025-05-29T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:25:05","slug":"jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect","title":{"rendered":"Jigawa court acquits armed robbery suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Jigawa State High Court No. 11, sitting in Ringim has discharged and acquitted one Isah Usman, popularly known as Nigger, for the offences of Criminal Conspiracy and Robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant was earlier arraigned before the Court on allegation of armed robbery committed on the 2nd day of February 2020, at Chaichai Tsohuwa Village of Dutse Local Government Area, Jigawa State.<\/p>\n<p>While delivering the judgment, the presiding Judge, Justice Muhammad El-Usman, said the prosecution did not prove the allegation against the defendant as provided by law.<\/p>\n<p>He said the prosecution were able to call only one witness and did not tender any exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Muhammad explained that the prosecution had failed in their bid to establish the offence against the defendant when they failed to call the two alleged victims of the offence to testify.<\/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. A Jigawa State High Court No. 11, sitting in Ringim has discharged and acquitted one Isah Usman, popularly known as Nigger, for the offences of Criminal Conspiracy and Robbery. The defendant was earlier arraigned before the Court on allegation of armed robbery committed on the 2nd day of February 2020, at Chaichai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[69,708,254],"class_list":["post-164764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-court","tag-jigawa","tag-nigeria"],"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>Jigawa court acquits armed robbery suspect - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Jigawa State High Court No. 11, sitting in Ringim has discharged and acquitted one Isah Usman, popularly known as Nigg ...\" \/>\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\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jigawa court acquits armed robbery suspect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Jigawa State High Court No. 11, sitting in Ringim has discharged and acquitted one Isah Usman, popularly known as Nigg ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-29T09:03:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-29T10:25:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748501757.091465.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1260\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"840\" \/>\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\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Jigawa court acquits armed robbery suspect\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-29T09:03:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-29T10:25:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect\"},\"wordCount\":151,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748501757.091465.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"court\",\"Jigawa\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/jigawa-court-acquits-armed-robbery-suspect\",\"name\":\"Jigawa court acquits armed robbery suspect - 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