25/10/2025
NIGER STATE POLICE COMMAND
25th October, 2025
CRIME BULLETIN
TEN PERSONS ARRESTED FOR THUGGERY IN MINNA/KOTANGORA, SUSPECTED CANNABIS/WEAPONS/OTHER ILLICIT SUBSTANCES RECOVERED.
In continuation of the Police Command's clampdown on thuggery and other vices in the State, on 23rd October 2025 at about 2.30pm, Police operatives attached to 'A' Div Kotangora conducted a sting operation at Tudun-Wada area of Kotangora and three suspects were arrested;
- Abdullahi Abdullahi 22yrs
- Fahad Abubakar 19yrs
- Nasiru Aliyu 28yrs, all of Tudun-Wada area, Kotangora
The suspects were arrested with a large quantity of suspected cannabis, two knives, and a pair of military trousers. Investigation is ongoing
Earlier on 21 - 23 October 2025, Police operatives attached to Central Police Station Minna raided some hideouts within Minna metropolis such as Angwan-Sarki, Kuta road, Sabon-Gari, Ogbomosho area, Baida and parts of Makera, where the following persons were arrested;
- Hamza Dauda 28yrs of A/Dani
- Hussain Sanda 25yrs of A/Dani
- Sani Hassan 22yrs of S/Gari
- Danlami Garba 25yrs of S/Gari
- Saidu Hassan 19yrs of Baida
- Musa Umar 21yrs of Limawa
- Hassan Usman 25yrs of A/Sarki
They were also arrested with suspected cannabis, sh**ha pots and pipes and other illicit substances. All suspects charged to court on October 24, 2025
(2) TWO ROBBERY SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN MAJE, WHILE FLEEING FROM ROBBERY SCENE IN BIDA
On October 22, 2025 at about 6.45pm, Police operatives attached to Maje Div intercepted and arrested two suspects;
- Aliyu Salihu 25yrs
- Jibrin Ndako 22yrs, both of Barkin-Saleh, Minna
The suspects were arrested at Tungan-Shanu area of Maje with a white unregistered Lucky motorcycle.
During investigation, it was revealed that the two suspects, armed with cutlasses had robbed a student in his lodge in Bida of the motorcycle, four handsets and a sum of forty thousand naira on same date at about 2.30am. The suspects confessed to the crime and said that they were escaping to Kogi State before the arrest.
The exhibits recovered include the motorcycle, four handsets, two ATM cards and a sum of seven thousand naira remaining from the forty thousand robbed. They have been transferred to SCID Minna for further investigation.
(3) ARREST OF A SUSPECTED MOTORCYCLE SNATCHER
On October 24, 2025 at about 7am, Police operatives attached to Chanchaga Div intercepted and arrested one Saidu Aliyu, an adult of Kpakungu area of Minna with a Bajaj motorcycle suspected to be stolen.
He was arrested along Chanchaga-Paiko road with the motorcycle, as he couldn't give satisfactory account of himself. During investigation, it was revealed that the motorcycle was snatched from a victim around Maitumbi area of Minna. The suspect is under investigation.
(4) THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED FOR CONSPIRACY, CRIMINAL TRESPASS, HOUSE BREAKING AND THEFT.
On October 17, 2025 around 4pm, based on a direct complaint received at Bosso Div from two victims at Shanu village via Bosso, three suspects were arrested;
- Abdulkarim Nawah
- Nafiu Mohammed
- Abdulrazak Aminu, all of Shanu village via Bosso
During investigation, it was ascertained that the suspects trespassed to a yam farm in the village and stole tubers of yam worth over sixty thousand naira. Similarly, they were also reported to have broken into a residence within the area on October 11, 2025 and stole two phones valued over four hundred thousand naira.
In the course of interrogation, they confessed to the crime and stated that the phones were sold to one "2Baba" in the same village, but presently at large, while twenty-three tubers of yam were recovered. The suspects were charged to court for prosecution on 21/10/2025.
SP W. A ABIODUN
PPRO
Niger State Command