174 Armed Robbers Arrested In Abuja

           
About 174 armed robbers have been arrested by the FCT security agencies between April and September 2013 in Abuja.

This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Muhammad Sule, Chief Press Secretary to the FCT Minister, on Tuesday in Abuja.
It said the FCT Commissionerof Police, Mr Femi Ogunbayode, disclosed during a high-point discussion at the FCT Security Committee meeting chaired by FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed.
It said that 604 rounds of live ammunition were recovered during the period.
“The number of arms recovered include
27 locally-made pistols, three AK-47
riffles, one Lar-Riffle, 11 Wooden/Toy
Guns and one JoeJeff Pump Action Gun,” it said.
It said that Ogunbayode also disclosed
that a total of 61 stolen vehicles were
recovered in the FCT during the period
under review.

ACN Calls For Rejection of Emergency Rule

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has,however, described the declaration of a state of emergency in the three states as lacking in original thinking, and therefore asked the National Assembly toreject it. In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said if the use of force was capable of ending the Boko Haram crisis, it would have ended a long time ago. It said while the President was right in expressing outrage over the mindless killings and wanton destructionby the insurgents, he was wrong in proposing more of the same measures that have failed to yield results. “If the medicine given to a patient has not cured his or her illness,

Five Expertriates Kidnapped Off Bayelsa Coastline Gains Freedom

Five foreigners kidnapped aboard a German ship off the Niger Delta region coast in Bayelsa have regained their freedom. Some yet to be identified gunmen abducted the five expatriates aboard an oil support vessel along Sagana waterways in Brass LocalGovernment Area of Bayelsa on April 26 2013. Kidnappings and killings carried out by pirates, and former militants have increased dramatically in the area until recent times. The deployment of 20 gunboats recently acquired by Bayelsa government by the security forces has failed to reign in the rampaging pirates even as Gov. Seriake Dickson rarely stays in the state to address the worsening insecurity in his domain, oftentraveling to Abuja the nation's capital to see President Goodluck Jonathan. The Chief Press Secretary to Bayelsa Governor, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, assured that recent upsurge in kidnap of oil workers would soon be contained, assuring law-abiding residents in the coastal areas of their safety. Iworiso-Markson, reportedly said that the Seriake Dickson administration had a zero-tolerance policy for kidnapping in Bayelsa. Two persons arrested over two previous kidnapping are reportedly being prosecuted in the state. Joint Task Force (JTF) spokesperson, Lt.Colonel Oyenma Nwachukwu states further that the JTF was on the trail of the armed kidnappers who engaged troops in a shoot at Adagbarasa/Itagbene area recently SAHARA REPORTERS