The Police command in Jigawa has arrested 13 suspected drug peddlers in coordinated raids across five Local Government Areas of the state. Police Public Relations Officer, SP Lawan Shiisu, disclosed this in a statement issued in Dutse on Sunday. Shiisu said the arrests followed credible intelligence reports and subsequent raids …
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THE Police Command in Jigawa says it has apprehended 156 suspects for various offences in the last one month. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Dahiru Muhammad, who confirmed this on Wednesday in Dutse, said operatives of the command nabbed the suspects across the state between July 8 and Sept. 1, …
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The Jigawa State Police Command has arrested three suspects in connection with an armed robbery that occurred in Katoge Village, Kazaure Local Government Area. In a statement made available to journalists on Sunday in Dutse, the spokesman for the Jigawa Command, Shi’isu Adam, said the arrest was made possible by …
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THE Jigawa State Police Command has arrested a suspect in connection with the gruesome killing of a 14-year-old Almajiri pupil, Bashir Adamu, whose beheaded body was found with his genitals removed. The incident reportedly occurred on the road to Jikas-Dabaja village in Gwaram Local Government Area. Bashir had been missing …
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A 26-year-old man, identified as Nura Mas’ud, has reportedly set his grandmother ablaze in Jigawa State. Newsextra24 reports that the state command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Lawan Adam, confirmed in a statement on Saturday that the suspect had been arrested. He explained that the woman was admitted to a hospital where …
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POLICE in Jigawa State have arrested a 50-year-old man for allegedly manufacturing firearms in Ringim Local Government Area of the state. DSP Lawan Shiisu, the state police spokesman, confirmed this in Dutse on Thursday, saying that the suspect was arrested on Nov. 16. “Policemen in Ringim in collaboration with a …
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A traditional ruler in Jigawa State, Umar Ibrahim, has been accused of infecting a lady in his locality with HIV. A letter addressed to the Secretary of Dutse Emirate Council, Dutse Emir’s Palace, by Senior State Counsel in Jigawa State Ministry of Justice, Kabiru Abdullah Esq., claimed that the Village Head …
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GUNMEN have kidnapped two wives of the Chairman of Kiyawa Local Government Council in Jigawa State. A resident told Newsextra24 that the incident occurred on Friday night when the hoodlums invaded Kiyawa town and gained entrance to the chairman’s residence, subsequently abducting the two wives. The source said the suspected …
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The Jigawa State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with an alleged case of armed robbery. The suspect, Ibrahim Abubakar of Malamawa village in the Dutse Local Government Area, was apprehended on June 18, 2023 at 6 p.m. upon intelligence gathering by operatives attached to Kiyawa Division. …
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Operatives of the Jigawa State Police Command have arrested suspected drug dealer and recovered 265 wraps of substance suspected to be marijuana. The state police spokesperson, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, July 19, said the suspect was arrested on his way to criminal …
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