BREAKING: Police arraign 29 Yoruba Nation agitators in Ibadan

No fewer than 29 suspects were on Wednesday arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court for involvement and roles in aborted invasion of the Oyo State Government Secretariat on Saturday, April 13.

They were arraigned on seven count charge bordering on treasonable felony, unlawful society, illegal possession of firearm, going armed and conduct likely to cause breach of peace.

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The offences, according to the Investigative Police Officer, Bakare Rasaq, an Inspector with the State Criminal Investigation Department, Iyaganku, Ibadan is contrary to and punishable under Section 516 of the Criminak Code, Cap 38, Vol.II, Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria, 2000.

The number is an increase of eight more following the parade of 21 suspects erier by the Oyo Police Command.

The case with charge number Mi/520c/2024 is between the Commissioner of Police vs the 29 suspects.

BREAKING: Police arraign 29 Yoruba Nation agitators in Ibadan

Whereabouts of two FRSC officials unknown over five weeks after abduction

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ebonyi has confirmed the abduction of two of its personnel by gunmen along the Abakaliki-Enugu highway.

Sector commander of the FRSC in Ebonyi, Henry Igwe, told journalists on Tuesday in Abakaliki that both personnel were abducted on March 8.

Igwe said the two personnel had concluded their duties at the corps’ Nkalagu office and were returning to Enugu when they were abducted.

He said the corps contacted their families, who informed them that the officers had yet to return home.

“The families said that some people contacted them that they were kidnappers and were demanding ransom.

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“The negotiations are between the families and kidnappers, and as an organisation, we have been doing the much we can,” he said.

The sector commander said his office had informed its headquarters of the development and formally reported to relevant security agencies.

He noted that it had not been established that the personnel were either alive or dead, but the fact remained that they had not been seen.

Jude Okpor, Ebonyi Commissioner for Information and Orientation, dismissed the insinuation that the state government was nonchalant about the situation.

“The matter has inter-state connectivity, and the government has initiated measures with its affected sister state to nip it in the bud,” he said.

DSP Joshua Ukandu, the police public relations officer in Ebonyi, urged families of victims to report such incidents to the command so that it can establish whether the incident happened at the Ebonyi axis of the road.

“The situation is more of an Enugu issue, and information on it should be sought from the Enugu command of the force.

“I believe some steps are being taken to combat it, but our safer highway teams stationed on the affected axis always assist commuters in crossing safely from the area,” he said.

Whereabouts of two FRSC officials unknown over five weeks after abduction

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Driver killed, 16 passengers abducted on Abuja-Lokoja road

Gunmen have shot dead a bus driver and abducted his 16 passengers near Chikara village on the Abuja-Lokoja highway.

According to Daily Trust, the incident happened on Thursday around 12am when the gunmen opened fire on a Sharon bus at a bend near Yakwo Farms.

It was gathered the bus driver was killed instantly, while the occupants, including a nursing mother, were whisked away into the bush.

Another commercial bus driver, Saidu Ibrahim, said, “I was driving behind the bus that was shot at, but as God would have it, there was no vehicle coming from behind me and I applied brakes and reversed with speed and escaped.”

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A member of the Abaji branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Danjuma Suleiman, also who confirmed the incident, said six among the kidnapped victims, including two women and a nursing mother, were later freed.

He said, “That night, six of the victims were freed as the abductors discovered that one of them, a nursing mother, was not strong enough to trek into the bush.”

Suleiman further said that the victims were travelling from Delta State to Lafia, Nasarawa State.

The remains of the bus driver was deposited at the Abaji General Hospital.

The spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, SP Williams Ovey Ayah, did not pick calls or reply to a text message sent to him on the incident.

Driver killed, 16 passengers abducted on Abuja-Lokoja road