Former aide to the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to claims by the police that Nigerians calling for the scrap of SARS are most likely armed robbers.
"The prompt response by the Police, Department of State Services, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and an armed squad of the Prison Service actually aborted what could have been a jailbreak.
"On the 20th of August, 2021 at about 2330hrs the Rapid Response Squad(RRS) received a credible tip off that a group of hoodlums suspected to be armed robbers were in Atikankan area of Ado-Ekiti," he stated.
North Korea warned on Thursday it is planning its toughest response to what it deemed a "declaration of war" by the United States after Washington blacklisted the nuclear-armed country's leader, Kim Jong Un, for human rights abuses.
"Your response to Boko Haram insurgency, banditry, militancy, kidnapping as well as activities of separatists and armed militias among others have been very commendable.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian pledged on Friday that Iran will deliver a "legitimate and powerful" response to Israel's airstrikes earlier in the day.
Men of the Lagos State Police Command Special Squad, Ikeja, have arrested three suspected armed robbers who snatched a Lexus car at gunpoint in Ikorodu area of Lagos on July 11.
ARREST OF SUSPECTED ARMED ROBBERS CULTIST AND RECOVERY OF ARMS: On 25/02/2019 at about 0630hrs one Gwebe Joshua 'm'of behind Bem Hotels, Makurdi made a distress call to inform the police of an armed robbery attack.
He had spent three years in prison and subsequently found his way out in 2015 and became a notorious armed robber. He was arrested again by IRT operatives in Kwara state two weeks ago.